Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Anne reveled in the world of color about her. "Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.