In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child — ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

Never since the heroic days of Greece has the world had such a sweet, just, boyish master.

small boy with a big grace

Childhood whose very happiness is love.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Sweet little rock and roller, sweet little rock and roller Her daddy don’t have to scold her, her mother can’t hardly hold her She never gets any older, sweet little rock and roller

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

"It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all."

Tis sweet to hear the watchdog’s honest bark
Bay deep-mouth’d welcome as we draw near home;
’Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when we come;
’Tis sweet to be awaken’d by the lark,
Or lull’d by falling waters; sweet the hum
Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds,
The lisp of children, and their earliest words.

But anyway his heart is kind and gentle and that is better than being wise.

...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

The boy who refused to lose his soul.

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

The sweet converse of an innocent mind.