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

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

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

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

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.

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.