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

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.