All, All Are Gone, The Old Familiar

In Some Respects The Better A Book Is, The Less It Demands From The Binding.

Think What You Would Have Been Now, If Instead Of Being Fed With Tales And Old Wives' Fables In Childhood, You Had Been Crammed With Geography And Natural History!

Your Absence Of Mind We Have Borne, Till Your Presence Of Body Came To Be Called In Question By It.

A Laxity Pervades The Popular Use Of Words.

Is The World All Grown Up? Is Childhood Dead? Or Is There Not In The Bosom Of The Wisest And The Best Some Of The Child's Heart Left, To Respond To Its Earliest Enchantments?