“Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.”
“Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.”
“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.”
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
“As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more.”
“Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.”