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.

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.