The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

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

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.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.