Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went a….

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reach….

There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes..

I'm such a clever Toad..

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! ….

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it..

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad..

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working..

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!.

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wonde….

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired..

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly….

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - ….

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a….

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed..

It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest….

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - ….

Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads suddenly, as du….

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine ….

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but….