“In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well”

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

“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…”

“Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?”

“Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth”

“Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating?”

“Nothing worth while is every easy come by.”