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

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

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.

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.

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