Edith Nesbit

“There's no end to this tunnel', said Phyllis - and indeed it did seem very, very long.
'Stick to it', said Peter; 'everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.'
Which is quite true, if you come to think of it, and a useful thing to remember in seasons of trouble - such as measles, arithmetic, impositions, and those times when you are in disgrace , and feel as though no one would ever love you again, and you could never - never again - love anybody.”
― Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children

“but we thought perhaps the G. B.—it is short for Generous Benefactor—would not like it if there were so many of us. I have often noticed that it is the worst of our being six—people think six a great many, when it’s children. That sentence looks wrong somehow. I mean they don’t mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.”
― Edith Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers