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.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

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

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them