Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

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

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.