Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

Feelings change facts.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.