Rest is by no means a waste of time.

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

It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

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.

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

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

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