Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

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