We ought always to try to influence others for good.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.