We cannot make school reading effective as a means of education unless we make it a pleasure as well: we must recognize the activity of the imagination in childhood. […] As he had not liked them at all, he made them seem very bad and ugly; but that is no reason why we need dislike the little speckled creatures, when we hear them croaking in the marshes. […] Nowadays, when we wish to say that any one is very, very powerful, we call his strength Herculean. […] And this is the story of the origin of the horn of plenty, which we see at so many of our autumn festivals. […] Hospitality is a long word, but it has such a beautiful meaning that we can forgive its length.