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.

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

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

I am worn to a raveling.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

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

The shorter and the plainer the better.