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

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

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

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.