Green Gables.
Gracious heavenly Father, I thank Thee for the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters and Bonny and the Snow Queen. I’m really extremely grateful for them. And that’s all the blessings I...
Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.
Fear is the original sin, wrote John Foster. Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.
Experience teaches sense. You can't learn it in a college course.
Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley
Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.
Even skeptical Dan prayed, his skepticism falling away from him like a discarded garment in this valley of the shadow, which sifts out hearts and tries souls, until we all, grown-up or children, reali...
Emily, whispered Teddy, you're the sweetest girl in the world.The words have been said so often by so many millions of lads to so many millions of lasses, that they ought to be worn to tatters. But wh...
Emily's convalescence was rather slow. Physically she recovered with normal celerity but a certain spiritual and emotional languor persisted for a time. One cannot go down to the depths of hidden thi...
Diana go slowly out with the others, to walk home alone through the Birch Path and Violet Vale, it was all the former could do to keep her seat and refrain from rushing impulsively after her chum. A l...
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
Charlotte had never forgotten it - she was always looking for it. An old house facing seaward, ships going up and down. Spruce woods and musty hills, cold salt air from the water, rest, quiet, silence...
Carl had the clear, bright, dark-blue eyes, fearless and direct, of his dead mother, and her brown hair with its glints of gold. He knew the secrets of bugs and had a sort of freemasonry with bees and...
Captain
But we must not repine at what Providence has ordained. (First Samuel, 29th and 18th.)
But the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible. It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking up and down.
But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it'...
But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress — because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while…