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

Do what you will, only do something.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

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.