“These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.” HomeAgeNightStudyYouthComfortAdversityProsperityPleasantRefugeRetreatConsolationAccompanyAccompany Us Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.” MenMindMayFeelingsJoyDesireCultureEmotionAttitudeStudyMaterialsComfortSkillsImpulseAgricultureFortitudeMaterial ThingsLife Skills Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.” ShouldChildrenAbleSchoolOrderTeachStudyTeacherPlansComfortConversationBuiltPrisonConvenientMerriment Book:Tolstoy on Education Source: Tolstoy on Education
“Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting individual domestic pleasure and social enjoyment in conversation, but what are they in comparison with the grand stimulation of independence and self- reliance, of the capability of contributing to the comfort and happiness of those whom they love as their own souls?” MayIdeasSoulSelfUsePurposeGirlIndividualSocialPleasureStudyComfortConversationAchievementIndependencePracticalsEnjoymentComparisonCapabilitySelf RelianceReliancePromotingContributingStimulationComfort And Happiness Author:Sarah Moore Grimke
“Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.” MenDifferentReadingStudyComfortGainsFortuneFruitStriveStrife Book:Seldeniana: with a biographical preface Source: Seldeniana: with a biographical preface
“The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is as if He has said to the inhabitants of this globe that we call ours, "I have made an earth for man to dwell upon, and I have rendered the starry heavens visible, to teach him science and the arts. He can now provide for his own comfort, and learn from my munificence to all to be kind to each other.” IfsMenKindArtMadeSaidEarthUniverseHeavenPrinciplesTeachStudyComfortStructureVisibleBe KindAlmightyGlobesImitationInvitedLecturerAge Of Reason Book:The age of reason Source: The age of reason