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When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a ...more

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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

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My school-days! The silent gliding on of my existence—the unseen, unfelt progress of my life—from childhood up to youth! Let me think, as I look back ...more

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The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

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It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in ...more

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My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing s...more

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The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed-in once, s...more