It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

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.

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie