There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine