Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.