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.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.