There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

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

Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?