Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.