People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.

Time is but a mode of thought

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again.