The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.