How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.