Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

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.

Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

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

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

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.

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