"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

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

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.