The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.