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.

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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

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

Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

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.

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