The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.