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.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

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

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

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

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

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.