Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

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

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

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

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.