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

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

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