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

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.

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

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

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

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

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.