Love is a beautifier.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.