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

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.

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.

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.