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 am worn to a raveling.

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

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

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

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

The shorter and the plainer the better.

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

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

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

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

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

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

Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.