I could have been a great many things.

Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

Dolls are safe companions.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.