It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.