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

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

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

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

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...