I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.