'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation.
Source: In The Harper Book of Quotations, by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.
-- John Buchan, (Aug 26 1875-1940), Scottish author, government official; His adventure novels include the classic Thirty-Nine Steps, 1915.