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

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

Dolls are safe companions.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.