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.

"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

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

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

People never like me and I never like people

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.