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

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.