The Water-Babies (1863) (edit title/settings)

Stan edited the memorable quotes of The Water-Babies Monday, December 20, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “I heard, ma'am, that you were always making new beasts out of old." "So people fancy. But I am not going to trouble myself to make things, my little dear. I sit here and make them make themselves." "You are a clever fairy, indeed," thought Tom. And he was quite right.”

Stan edited the memorable quotes of The Water-Babies Saturday, December 18, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “Tom had to learn his lesson for himself by sound and sharp experience, as many another foolish person has to do, though there may be many a kind heart yearning over them all the while, and longing to teach them what they can only teach themselves.”

Stan edited the memorable quotes of The Water-Babies Saturday, December 18, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “You must not talk about "ain't" and "can't" when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.”

Punxsutawney Paul edited the memorable quotes of The Water-Babies Sunday, November 28, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “And at that Tom cried so bitterly that the salt sea was swelled by his tears, and the tide was .3,954,620,819 of an inch higher than it had been the day before: but perhaps that was owing to the waxing of the moon. It may have been so; but it is considered right in the new philosophy to give spiritual causes to physical phenomena - especially in parlour tables; and, of course, physical causes for spiritual ones, like thinking, and praying, and knowing right from wrong. And so they odds it till it comes even, as they say down in Berkshire.”

Punxsutawney Paul edited the memorable quotes of The Water-Babies Sunday, November 28, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “"I did not know there was any harm in it," said Tom."Then you know now. People continually say that to me: but I tell them, if you don't know that fire burns, that is no reason that it should not burn you; and if you don't know that dirt breeds fever, that is no reason that the fever should not kill you. The lobster did not know that there was any harm in getting into the lobster-pot; but it caught him all the same."”

Punxsutawney Paul edited the memorable quotes of The Water-Babies Sunday, November 28, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “But if a hippopotamus major is ever discovered in one single ape's brain, nothing will save your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-greater-greatest-grandmother from having been an ape too.”

Punxsutawney Paul edited the memorable quotes of The Water-Babies Sunday, November 28, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “Letting water-babies die is as bad as taking singing birds' eggs; for, though there are thousands, ay, millions, of both of them in the world, yet there is not one too many.”

Punxsutawney Paul edited the memorable quotes of The Water-Babies Sunday, November 28, 2010.

• Added a quotation: “For then the great fairy 'science', who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm; and instead of fancying, with some people, that your body makes your soul, as if a steam-engine could make it's own coke; or, with some people, that your soul has nothing to do with your body, but it is only stuck into it like a pin into a pincushion, to fall out with the first shake; - you will believe the one true, orthodox, inductive, rational, deductive, philosophical, seductive, logical, productive, irrefragable, salutary, nominalistic, comfortable, realistic, and on-all-accounts-to-be-received doctrine of this wonderful fairy tale; which is, that your soul makes your body, just as a snail makes his shell.”