The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.