"Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people,..." - Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor”

“"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"”

“The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.”

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

“Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.”

“It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”

“When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.”

“M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.”