The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight. (John Lancaster Spalding)

The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight.

John Lancaster Spalding

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