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

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

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

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

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.

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