US "educator, journalist".
"He was a Yale English professor, 1892-1933; popularized the arts through his lectures and essays."
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; but an American cow."