Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

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.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

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

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