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.

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

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

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

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.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.