With opportunity the world is very interesting.

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

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

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

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

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