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.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.