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

Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.