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

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

[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.

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.