There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction.

And there were easements and satisfactions. To have a full stomach, to doze lazily in the sunshine–such things were remuneration in full for his ardours and toils, while his ardours and tolls were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself. So the cub had no quarrel with his hostile environment. He was very much alive, very happy, and very proud of himself.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.