For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
The shorter and the plainer the better.
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.