Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth