Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

Dolls are safe companions.

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.