Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well