All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

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 love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.