"I think there is no one of us who can boast of having telescopic eyes. But when you read, books become your telescopi…"

"when I wrote My Father’s Daughter, some people said it was too good to be true; but it couldn’t be too good to be tru…"

"Some people who didn’t have better fathers said it was fiction. I said, ‘Well. if you didn’t have the kind of father …"

"When you write children’s literature, you write for different ages."

"I like to revise my works to be as near perfect as possible."

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

"Very few of the old s interfere with the duties of their assistants, but there be men who seem to think you have mere…"

"Three days at , and up anchor again; our next place of call being . Every one has heard of the , who tried to beat th…"

"When I was a little boy at school, floundering through Herodotus, and getting double doses of fum-fum daily for my An…"

"Every child knows how fond cats are of hunting and catching mice, but no cat any respectability would think of confin…"