The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.

Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve of Anne’s arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.