Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

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