Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and g...
Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.
I’m so glad my window looks east into the sun rising, said Anne, going over to Diana. It’s so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It’s...
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
I’m afraid you both cry and laugh far too easily.
It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.
It was very humiliating to be worsted by a girl—a country girl at that, who had passed most of her life on a farm! No doubt she was strong-minded and wanted to vote. I was quite prepared to believe an...
It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.
It isn't fair she should have everything and I nothing. She isn't better or cleverer or much prettier than me…only luckier.
It is easier to behave nicely when your good clothes on. - Rilla Blythe
It has been a prosy day for us, she said thoughtfully, but to some people it has been a wonderful day. Some one has been rapturously happy in it. Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today-- o...
It had been so ugly, and Walter hated ugliness.
In the elder days of artBuilders wrought with greatest careEach minute and unseen part,For the gods see everywhere,
If you love me as I love you Nothing but death can part us two.
If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.
I'm glad and I'm sorry. I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still more pleasant may come after, but you can never be sure. And it's so often the case that it isn't more pleasant.
I shall govern by affection, Mr. Harrison.
I kind of think she's one of the sort you can do anything with if you only get her to love you.
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
I don’t like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel petty and ashamed... ashamed to admit I hate to get out of bed on frosty mornings and shrink from a visit to the dentist!