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

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

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

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.