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

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

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

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

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

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

With opportunity the world is very interesting.