Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

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

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.