Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.