It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.