Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes.

11. "One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got you in you may never get over it as long as you live."
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

12. "When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived."
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

13. "Sara...looked long and hard at his face. 'Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?' he said... 'No,' she answered. 'I know you by heart. You are inside my heart."
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

14. "The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man."
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

15. "When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems there's not enow quarters to go around. But don't you-none o' you- think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it without hard knocks. What children learns from children, is that there's no sense grabbin' at th' whole orange-peel an' all. If you do you'll likely not get even th' pips, an' them's too bitter to eat."
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

16. "She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head."
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

17. "When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars."
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

18. "The air was full of spices... A Little Princess"
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

19. "Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)"
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

20. "The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea."
- Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett