Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.

...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.