You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.