Sympathy is a sweet thing.

Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Woman work a great many miracles.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.