I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

There is no running away from a great grief.

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.