To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
Thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.
Them as is not wanted scarce ever thrives.
The worst thing never quite comes.
The streets are shining, and there are fields and fields of lilies, and everybody gathers them. Sara tells me when she puts me to bed. You wicked thing, said Lavinia, turning on Sara; making fairy sto...
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if...
Soldiers don’t complain, she would say between her small, shut teeth, I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.
She had seen other children go away, and had heard their fathers and mothers talk about the letters they received from them. She had known that she would be obliged to go also, and though sometimes he...
Sara! she cried, aghast. Mamma Sara! She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all the world. Her short legs had seemed to have been mounting hundreds of stairs...
Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures here below, Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment.
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the ten...
One of her favorite fancies was that on the outside, as she called it, thoughts were waiting for people to call them.
Magic is alwayspushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees,flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all...
Lottie had always found, while in her own nursery at home, kicking and screaming would always be quieted by any means she insisted upon. Poor plump Miss. Amelia was trying first one method, then anoth...
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants...
I was thinking, she said. Beg my pardon immediately, said Miss Minchin. I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude, said Sara; but I won't beg your pardon for thinking.
I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us - like electricity and horses and steam.