Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

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.

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

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

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

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.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.