Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

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.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.