The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.