Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

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

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.

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.

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

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.