Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.