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

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

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

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would...

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

So little done, so much to do.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

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.

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

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

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.