And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

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

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)

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.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.