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

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

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.

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

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.