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.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.