I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.