That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".

Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

"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.".