There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

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.