“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Time does not have the same appeal for every one

Life’s not fair, get used to it.

Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.