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.

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.

{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.

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

I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

It takes two flints to make a fire.