Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.