The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.

Her affection for everything she could love increased.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor