A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

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.

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

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

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

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.