Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

"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!"

I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess

I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

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.