When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the... present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which... comes to others through their eyes and their ears.... books have meant so much more in my education than in that of others ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as... it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse... of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many scholars forget ... that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon... our understanding. ... very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »