Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

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

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.