Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.

The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery — we may only wander, awed and spellbound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.