Do what you will, only do something.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

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

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

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.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.