We ought always to try to influence others for good.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Nothing worth while is every easy come by.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.