I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

O vanity, mislead no more!

I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.