It Is Sad, Indeed, To See How

The Important Thing Is Not So Much That Every Child Should Be Taught, As That Every Child Should Have The Opportunity Of Teaching Itself. What Does It Matter If The Pupil Know A Little More Or A Little Less? A Boy Who Leaves School Knowing Much, But Hating His Lessons, Will Soon Have Forgotten All He Ever Learned; While Another Who Had Acquired A Thirst For Knowledge, Even If He Had Learned Little, Would Soon Teach Himself More Than The First Ever Knew.

Try To Realize All The Blessings You Have, And You Will Find Perhaps That They Are More Than You Suppose.

Many Of The Greatest Men Have Owed Their Success To Industry Rather Than To Cleverness.

False Pleasures Come From Without And Are Imperfect: Happiness Is Internal And Our Own.

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 From The Hedges, Or Look Up From The Ground, And As Each Year Fades Away, He Looks Back On A Fresh Store Of Happy Memories.