I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

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

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

Be worthy love, and love will come.

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

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone