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

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

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

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. 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.

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.

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