A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

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

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.

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

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.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

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.