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

... justice is mercy's highest self.

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.

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