Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

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.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.

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

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.