I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

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