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

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

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.

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