Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

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.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

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.

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

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