“Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.”

“Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)”

“Well, that was life. Gladness and pain... hope and fear... and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart... learn to love it and then let it go in turn.”

“It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?”

“Everything that's worth having is some trouble…”

“It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.”

“…you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young.”