I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.