Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.