Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Anne reveled in the world of color about her. "Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

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

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.