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

I am worn to a raveling.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

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

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

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.