It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.

I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.