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I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconc...more

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The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

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and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like for...more

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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

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. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group...more

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They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.

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. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injus...more

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Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain destructio...more

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How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my ...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

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My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith ...more

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Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr...more