boyhood quotes

In ancient shadows and twilights Where childhood had strayed, The world's great sorrows were born And its heroes were made. In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

- GeorgeWilliam pseudonym  Ó Russell
  Enchantment and Other Poems,'Germinal'.

Iown Ilike definiteforminwhat myeyesaretorest upon; and if landscapes were sold, likethe sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Travels with a Donkey,'FatherApollinaris'.