Ali on Children

“Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.”

“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.”

“Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.”

“Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.”