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

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

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.

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

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

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

Thank goodness my education was neglected.