I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.