24th November: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett, writer best known for her three children's novels: Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden was born on this date in 1849.

1. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
2. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. 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.
3. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in - that's stronger.
4. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done - then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
5. Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
6. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
7. I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us.
8. As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
9. If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one.
10. Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing.