Eric, or Little by Little Quotes

″‘Oh, mother,’ he said, ‘I am so happy- I like to say my prayers when you are here.‘”

“Those baby lips, the pure young heart, a year may work sad change in their words and thoughts!”

“He hated Eric at first sight, simply because his feeble mind could only realize one idea about him, and that was the new boy’s striking contrast with his own imperfections.”

“And yet, although we know it to be a mere delusion, we all idealize and idolize our childhood.”

“Who shall describe the emotions of those few moments? They did not seem like earthly moments; they seemed to belong not to time, but to eternity.”

“They loved God, and did all the good they could to those around them.”

“Every one knows how very confusing it is to enter a strange room full of strange people...”

“It was the first kind word he had had since the morning, and after his troubles kindness melted him.”

“Hatred is the most mysterious and painful phenomenon to the unhappy person who is the object of it...”

″‘He had stood there for justice,’ and he had counted the cost.”