...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.