I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33

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

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

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

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.