It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?
Childhood is but change made gay and visible.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.