If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

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.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

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

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.

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

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.