The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.

A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

History repeats, again.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.