A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and 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.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.