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

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.