If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.