I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

'Bah!' said Scrooge, 'Humbug!'

'Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.' 'Come, then,' returned the nephew gaily. 'What right …

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, t…

A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious…