True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Source: A Miscellany of Men, The Contented Man (1912).
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936), English essayist, novelist, journalist, poet; He is noted for the detective series with sleuth Father Brown.