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.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

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.