It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.