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

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

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.