Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Rest is by no means a waste of time.