I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

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 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.

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

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

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

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