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

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

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.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.