A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

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.

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.