I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.