“The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.” PeopleWorldWellsLooksMayLittlesSeemsWould BeSleepCasesConditionsChangedDependsBedCapacityOptimismParadiseUnhappinessBreakfastCheerfulOutlookBrighterGloomyGraveyardMental PowerDealing With ItSleep Well Author:Arthur Lynch
“The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.” IfsShouldMindLittlesHas BeensFactsUseInterestingEducationPerspectiveAccumulationKnackKnicks Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day
“The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.” PeopleMenWayShouldMayLittlesPlayUseWinningEducationHe ManTestsNakedSecurePianoAccomplishmentThrownShoreArtificialCricketWill PowerPhysique Author:Arthur Lynch
