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

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