It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.