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.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

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

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.