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.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Where the heart is the mind works best.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.