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.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

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

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".