Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

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

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.