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

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

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

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

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

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.