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

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.