...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.