Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

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

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.