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

“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

“No more twist!”

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

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

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

“Tuesday, November 17th. 1896...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 childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.”