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

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

…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

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

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.