Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.