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 great.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
