We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Nothing worth while is every easy come by.

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.