Dolls are safe companions.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.