“We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.”

“Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.”

“A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.”

“Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.”

“We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.”

“...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.”