It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

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