An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.