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

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

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

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

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

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.

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