Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.