I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years..

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

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy ….

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life..

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born.

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

I am worn to a raveling..

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the di….

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion..

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower an….

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….

With opportunity the world is very interesting..