I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

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

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

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

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