Excerpt from The Way to Happiness
In the Diary of Crabbe Robinson there is the record of a conversation with Wordsworth about Coleridge. The Poet had said that Coleridge's mind was "of greater power than any he had ever known." He then added, "No one has completely understood me, not even Coleridge; he is not happy enough!" This is a complete biography!
It is evident that the wisest and simplest poet of England from Milton's day to his own held very firmly the conviction that Happiness is necessary to the complete integrity and grasp of the human mind. If this be so, then Happiness, which we so often treat as an accident of circumstance or an element of temperament, must be far above all accidents, and takes its place among the absolute necessities of our earthly life.
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