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

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.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

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

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

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

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.