It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.