Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, ' she said with a sigh.

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.

…but youth yearned to youth.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

We only open a couple of presents on Christmas morning we're all about the stockings - we even get them for the dogs!

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

I think as human beings we contradict our feelings constantly, we make mistakes, but I think ultimately it comes down to actions to define how we feel about each other.

I feel it when I need to train and I do what I feel like I need to do. I don't get obsessed with one style or one skill.

Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.

The more goals you set, the more goals you get.