I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

Just breathing isn't living!

'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some.