Every house needs a grandmother in it.

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.