It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.