Oh, Becky, she said. I told you we were just the same--only two little girls-just two little girls. You see how true it is. There’s no difference now. I’m not a princess anymore.Becky ran to her and c...
Now, young ladies, I have a few words to say to you, she announced.She’s going to make a speech, whispered one of the girls. I wish it was over.Sara felt rather uncomfortable. As this was her party, i...
Not very long after this a very exciting thing happened. Not only Sara, but the entire school, found it exciting, and made it the chief subject of conversation for weeks after it occurred. In one of h...
Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable...
Mrs. Medlock, knowing Ben had come from the gardens, hoped that he might have caught sight of his master and even by chance of his meeting with Master Colin. Did you see either of them, Weatherstaff?...
Mistress Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells,And marigolds all in a row.
It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.
It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?
It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
It was so new and big and wonderful and such a heavenly color.
It sounded like something in a book and it did not make Mary feel cheerful. A house with a hundred rooms, nearly all shut up and with their doors locked—a house on the edge of a moor—whatsoever a moor...
It really was a very strange feeling she had about Emily. It arose from her being so desolate. She did not like to own to herself that her only friend, her only companion, could feel and hear nothing....
In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any other century before. In this new century hun...
If you are four you are four, she said severely to Lavinia on an occasion of her having--it must be confessed--slapped Lottie and called her a brat; but you will be five next year, and six the year af...
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open and so is your heart; and thought there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full and you can give things out of th...
I've seen the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to grow here myself. That
I wouldn't want to make it look like a gardener's garden, all clipped an' spick an' span, would you? he said. It's nicer like this with things runnin' wild, an' swingin' an' catchin' hold of each othe...
I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story — how many parts of it are never told — how much more really happened than there is in the book...
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things
How does thee like thyself?