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 am worn to a raveling.

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

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

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33

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

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