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.

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

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.