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

What we see depends mainly on what we look for..

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others..

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has..

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for..

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds f….

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

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth..

It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window..

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence..

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work..

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever ….

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out fro….

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

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more ….

Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind..

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

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin..

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it..

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances..

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