Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.