Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

{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.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.