Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,—health, peace, and competence.
Alexander Pope
Happiness
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,—health, peace, and competence.
Alexander Pope
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 79.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.