It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

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

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.

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

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.