If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.