A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so these hard days need not be wasted. I know they will remember all I said to them, that they wil...
A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
…if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and cha...
…for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.
Now with new paint, added wings, well-kept lawn and
Lavished
That's the interferingest chap I ever see,
Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.
No, Mother, it is better as it is, and I’m glad Amy has learned to love him. But you are right in one thing. I am lonely, and perhaps if Teddy had tried again, I might have said ‘Yes,’ not because I l...
Let's hear the sound of the baby pianny.
Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice...
It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up at the sky as if for information upon his favorite topic.
I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
Hope and keep busy',
Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental.
Don't suggest that we are growing old, my Lord. We have only bloomed; and a very nice bouquet we make with our buds about us,' answered Mrs. Amy, shaking out the folds of her rosy muslin with much the...
The uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.
And Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a...