Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

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'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.