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

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

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.

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

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

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.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.