You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.