How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

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

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

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

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

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

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.