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

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

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

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.