What we see depends mainly on what we look for
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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 learn from books.
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
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,...
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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 float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time...