Dolls are safe companions.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

People cannot be molded like clay.