I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)