• A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

    George Eliot: A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
    George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.91