youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.