Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

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.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.