Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

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

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.