Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.