My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

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.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

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.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Where the heart is the mind works best.