[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

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.