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

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

I am worn to a raveling.

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

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...