Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)