I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

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

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.

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.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.