Francis Hodgson Burnett Quotes

It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.

Nature has made you for a giver: Your hands are born open, and so is your heart.

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.

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.