Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
All women are princesses, it is our right.
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one.
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
The Secret Garden
"Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are."
A Little Princess
But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born.
Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.
And that is best of all, Ceddie, it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived - even ever so little better, dearest.
It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.
To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience.
She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember.
When a man is very good and knows a great deal, he is elected president.
He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.
Everything was not as picturesque when seen near by, as it looked from a distance. She had found idleness and poverty and ignorance where there should have been comfort and industry.
