“Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.”

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

“…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”

“There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.”

“Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.”

“It would be so much easier to be good if one’s hair was handsome auburn, don’t you think?”

“Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.”