Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
All things great are wound up with all things little.
All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.