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

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

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

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...