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

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

Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

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

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.