“Our true occupation is to manufacture from the raw material of life the fabric of happiness.” Presenting happiness as something actively fashioned from experience · Introductory Lecture, University College London, 1892 Happiness Life Work
“How the world is managed, and why it was created, I cannot tell; but it is no featherbed for the repose of sluggards.” A characteristically severe endorsement of effort and intellectual labour · Preface to M. Manilii Astronomica Discipline Life Work
