You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Things happen to people by accident.

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

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.

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.

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. I scarcely ever do.

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.