Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.