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

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

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

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 cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

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.