I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.