Childhood was a joy, manhood a trag

Lamb sent these lines in their first state to Coleridge in June, 1796, at, which time they were, I conjecture, part of a long blank-verse poem which he was then meditating, and of which "Childhood," "Fancy Employed on Divine Subjects," and "The Sabbath Bells" (see pages 9 and 10) were probably other portions.

Our childhood can never be a blank.'

In trying to make manhood and womanhood, we sometimes treat children as little men and women, not realizing that the most perfect childhood is the best basis for strong manhood.

As I have said, childhood is the time to sow the seeds of belief, and not manhood; more especially where an earlier faith has taken root.

Childhood is preëminently the animal stage of existence.

Meanwhile, a happy childhood is an unspeakably precious memory.

Her childhood was in itself an enigma.

Looking back, it seems to me that our childhood was a queer mixture of Calvinism and fairy tales.

How ever the idea gained currency that childhood is the happiest period of life, I cannot conceive.

A SOT Has found out a way to renew not only his youth, but his childhood, by being stewed, like old Aeson, in liquor; much better than the virtuoso's way of making old dogs young again, for he is a child again at second hand, never the worse for the wearing, but as purely fresh, simple, and weak as he was at first.