As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

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

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

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.

But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.

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