If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

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

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.

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

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

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