Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 5, 1876 Death: May 21, 1947
Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep, she could ….
Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind..
Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually..
What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One eit….
So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branc….
happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events..
Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self re….
We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity..
You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar..
It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-s….
Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the wo….
Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too..
Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a po….
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly..
Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directio….
The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many..
Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot..
Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be broug….
The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more..
Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle..
Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-be….