To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.