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A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. - [Worry] Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them. - [Cultivation] 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. - [Learning] Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison. - [Cheerfulness] How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. - [Libraries] If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. - [Learning] In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. - [Determination] Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. - [Industry] Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - [Rest] There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist. - [Temptation] To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being. - [Happiness] What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - [Seeing]
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