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

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

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.