Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

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

If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.