“Ah! What would the world be to usIf the children were no more?We should dread the desert behind usWorse than the dark before.”

“If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”

“Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!”

“What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit.”

“Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb.You should look under the bed.”

“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.”