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