Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

I am simply a book drunkard.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.