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 ch….

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 fo….

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding.

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would….

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor..

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

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere..

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine..

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

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were bor….

Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they….

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

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime..

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.….

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

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail..

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever..

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!.

With opportunity the world is very interesting..

The shorter and the plainer the better..