The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of read more

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.

But thus: if powers divine
Behold our human actions, as they do,
I doubt not then but read more

But thus: if powers divine
Behold our human actions, as they do,
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush and tyranny
Tremble at patience.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it read more

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.