There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

I could never hate anyone I knew.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.