Quotes by Traherne, Thomas

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to >>

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be writt >>

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and >>

Quotations about Childhood

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood >>

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about u >>

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew >>

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

Traherne, Thomas