When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.
If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. . The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies o...
We profit little by books we do not enjoy.
I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most ...
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
