Lucy Maud Montgomery

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.