Thank goodness my education was neglected.

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.

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

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

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.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

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