An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

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

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

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

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

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

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.

What's that?" "That's my attack poodle.

I don't think this debate is negative, it is enriching

When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.