"Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually."

"And so with us, she thought. We come, we go, and, as individuals, we are forgotten. But the stream of human life goes…"

"'Thank God for my good dinner. Thank Father and Mother. Amen' was the grace used in one family, and it certainly had …"

"'Poverty's no disgrace, but 'tis a great inconvenience' was a common saying among the Lark Rise people. — (ch. …"

"Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least…"

"There was no Victoria in the school ... That great name was sacred to the Queen and was not copied by her subjects to…"

"The human eye loves to rest upon wide expanses of pure colour: the moors in the purple heyday of heather, miles of gr…"

"Pale purple as the bloom on a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches…"

"A grasshopper shrilled in a tuft at her feet and was answered by other shrillings among the gorse bushes; a solitary …"

"Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an autho…"