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

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.