It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.