Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

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)

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.