The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.