Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
Man is a child of his environment.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.