It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

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.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

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.

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.

The shorter and the plainer the better.