“Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.” — John Lubbock

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

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

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

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.