The shorter and the plainer the better.

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

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

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

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

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