💬 Quotes

"The earth, once so green and hopeful to him, had been disgraced for the sake of the gold, and he now hoarded it like a miser."

"In the severe cold and frost, little Nell, 'the jewel of the house', walked bravely on, sustained by the one pure motive of saving her grandfather."

"A habit of distrust is not easily cured; and a man who has lived forty years without a friend, is not likely to find one in the darkness."

"There are some people who, being made up of little narrow-minded prejudices, have no notion of anything that wanders from the beaten track."

"The old house had a melancholy air, as if it were conscious of its own decay and of the desolate state of the child who wandered through its empty rooms."

"Death, so often the last resting-place of the wretched, had come to her in her youth and spring-time; but it had brought no change to her lovely face."

"It has been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind pretty firmly that you will."

"Oh, we are queer mortals, most of us—what a pity it is we can't all be real and natural."

"A house is quite a separate thing from a home... a home is made of love and dreams and laughter."

"There is nothing so charming as a book that opens up new vistas of thought and imagination."

"We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are worth having, they are not to be won at our own or other people's detriment."

"I can't imagine a world without a sea in it, can you? It's always there, faithful and strong, no matter how the world changes."

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

"Repetition makes sorrows oft deeper, but the remedy lies in action."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"All's well that ends well yet, though time seem so adverse, and fortune kind."

"Kind folks are worth a mint of money, even if they don't have any."

"Avonlea is a nice place. It's safe. Nothing exciting ever happens, but you always know where you are."