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

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.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

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

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.