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

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.

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.

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

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

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

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.