“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.”
“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”
“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”
“It's Christmas! Ah, Christmas, the time when all good people go about not decapitating each other.”
“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”