Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

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

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.