We Must Be Careful What We Read,

We May Sit In Our Library And Yet Be In All Quarters Of The Earth.

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.

The Veil Is Slowly Rising, But As Regards Innumerable Questions We Must Be Content To Remain In Ignorance.

We Must Not Sit Still And Look For Miracles; Up And Doing, And The Lord Will Be With Thee.

Many Savage Nations Worship Trees, And I Really Think My First Feeling Would Be One Of Delight And Interest Rather Than Of Surprise, If Some Day When I Am Alone In The Woods One Of The Trees Were To Speak To Me.