Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

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

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.