“The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.”

“Flowers spring to blossom where she walksThe careful ways of duty,Our hard, stiff lines of life with herAre flowing curves of beauty.-WHITTIER”

“Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.”

“That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.”

“‎"Wouldn't it be lovely, Miss Shirley, if some one could just wave a wand and make everybody beautiful?" she said wistfully. "Just fancy my feelings, Miss Shirley, if I suddenly fould myself beautiful! But then"....with a sigh..."if we were all beauties who would do the work?" Anne of Windy Poplars”

“...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.”

“Only a few more weeks till spring . . . and a few more weeks then till summer . . . and holidays . . . and Green Gables . . . and golden sunlight on Avonlea meadows . . . and a gulf that will be silver at dawn and sapphire at noon and crimson at sunset . . . and you.”