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

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

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

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

Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.

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