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

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?

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

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?