“It's lovely to see people so happy.”

“having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay”

“what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.”

“proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.”

“It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wive...”

“I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo”

“having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay”

“proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.”

“It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wive...”

“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it al...”

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”