Great Throughts Treasury

"It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong."

"Religion is full of difficulties, but if we are often puzzled what to think, we need seldom be in doubt what to do."

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

"If wealth is to be valued because it gives leisure, clearly it would be a mistake to sacrifice leisure in the struggle for wealth."

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

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

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

"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. "

"Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present."

"Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances."

"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. "

"The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it."

"The world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as on the Happiness of Duty, for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is the most effectual contribution to the happiness of others."