One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

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.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

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