But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.