Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

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