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

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

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