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

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

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.

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

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.