Our Own Happiness Ought Not To Be

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.

Though It Is A Great Mistake To Make Friends Of The Wicked And Foolish, It Is Unwise To Make Enemies Of Them, For They Are Very Numerous.

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.

A Man Who Is Not A Good Friend To Himself Cannot Be So To Any One Else.

We Profit Little By Books We Do Not Enjoy.