November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

where I wholly love I wholly trust.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.