Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband which my grandmother gave my mother when she married my father." "Well, I reckon I can manage Marshall Elliott," said Miss Cornelia placidly. "But let us hear your rules." "The first one is, catch him." "He's caught. Go on." "The second one is, feed him well." "With enough pie. What next?" "The third and fourth are-- keep your eye on him.

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!