“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”

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

“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”

“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.”

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”

“A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.”

“To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.”

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for”

“Most of us can as we choose make of this world either a palace or a prison.”

“A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”