Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place ’the world would be!
We’ll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won’t.
If we are all alive ten years hence, let’s meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
People don’t have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It’s a dreadfully unjust world.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
Housekeeping ain’t no joke.
What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?
My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I’d go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don’t let it spoil you, for it’s wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can’t have the one you want.
Jo’s eyes sparkled, for it’s always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend’s praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.
The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.
But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
I hate ordinary people!