There is always light behind the clouds.
I’d take it manfully, and be respected if I couldn’t be loved.
This is the first duty of parents, and no false delicacy should keep them from the watchful care, the gentle warning, which makes self-knowledge and self-control the compass and pilot of the young as they leave the safe harbour of home.
The girls gave their hearts into their mother’s keeping – their souls into their father’s; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.
Sometimes when we least expect it, a small cross proves a lovely crown, a seemingly unimportant event becomes a lifelong experience, or a stranger becomes a friend.
Do you consider shoes unhealthy?” he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest.
Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored.
I can’t love anyone else; and I’ll never forget you, Jo, never! never!” with a stamp to emphasize his passionate words. – Laurie.
I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good; to be admired, loved and respected; to have a happy youth; to be well and wisely married; and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send.
Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty.
I don’t envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think.
Mother didn’t say anything about our money, and she won’t wish us to give up everything. Let’s each buy what we want, and have a little fun; I’m sure we work hard enough to earn it,” cried Jo, examining the heels of her shoes in a gentlemanly manner.
Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.
We’ve got Father and Mother, and each other,” said Beth contentedly from her corner.
Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,” said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.
Please could I say one word?” was the question three times repeated before a rough head bobbed out from the grotto of books in which Mac usually sat. “Did anyone speak?” he asked, blinking in the flood of sunshine that entered with Rose.
The sincere wish to be good is half the battle.
You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That’s not my way.
I’d rather give her new ones, for I think she is a little bit proud and might not like old things. If she was my sister it would do, because sisters don’t mind, but she isn’t, and that makes it bad, you see. I know how I can manage beautifully; I’ll adopt her!” and Rose looked quite radiant with.