That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?

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

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.