Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.
All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.
But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.