My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.