But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellignton or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.