Many A Blessing Has Been Recognized Too

Our Great Mistake In Education Is ... The Worship Of Book-learning-the Confusion Of Instruction And Education. We Strain The Memory Instead Of Cultivating The Mind. ... We Ought To Follow Exactly The Opposite Course With Children-to Give Them A Wholesome Variety Of Mental Food, And Endeavour To Cultivate Their Tastes, Rather Than To Fill Their Minds With Dry Facts.

It Always Seems To Be Raining Harder Than It Really Is When You Look At The Weather Through The Window.

How Little Our Libraries Cost Us As Compared With Our Liquor Cellars.

We Must Be Careful What We Read, And Not, Like The Sailors Of Ulysses, Take Bags Of Wind For Sacks Of Treasure.

Happy Indeed Is The Naturalist: To Him The Seasons Come Round Like Old Friends; To Him The Birds Sing: As He Walks Along, The Flowers Stretch Out From The Hedges, Or Look Up From The Ground, And As Each Year Fades Away, He Looks Back On A Fresh Store Of Happy Memories.