He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

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.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.