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

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

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 great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.