The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

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

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.