The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)
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It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
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The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.
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'Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?'
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the truest princess is just the one who loves all her brothers and sisters best, and who is most able to do them good by being humble towards them.