A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and….

Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spiri….

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but o….

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic..

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who a….

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?.

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton..

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost….

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, ….

Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it..

People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own t….

Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation..