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.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

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