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

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

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

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.