A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.

Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

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

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.