It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

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

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.