“It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?”

“It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.”

“What are you going to do with the money Anne? Let's all go up town and get drunk!”

“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.”

“They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?”

“For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.”

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”