“Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.”

“Its bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys games and work and manners!”

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”

“But, like all happiness, it did not last long”

“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.”