When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

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

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

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.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.