If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

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.

The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can