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.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.