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.

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

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

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

The shorter and the plainer the better.