Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.

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

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

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

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.