Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.