A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.

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.

Rest 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.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.