I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.