What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

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.

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

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

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

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

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