Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

Children are unaccountable little creatures.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.