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

Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

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.

Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

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

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary