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

Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

True friends are always together in spirit.

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.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?