Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.

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?

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.