Quote of the Day: Wells on the Pursuit of Happiness

David F. Wells on America’s pursuit of happiness:

“At America’s genesis, we set out to make happiness the end of life and enshrined its pursuit as an inviolable right in our constitution. Along the way, however, we have come to think that happiness is unattainable and unimaginable in the absence of comfort and affluence.”

David F. Wells, Above All Earthly Pow’rs