He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the gr...
Don’t be sorry, I won’t let it hurt me. I’ll forget all the bad and remember only the good, for I did enjoy a great deal.
Come, Philander, let us be a marching, Every one his true love a searching,Would be the most appropriate motto for this chapter, because, intimidated by the threats, denunciations, and complaints show...
Burdens
Beth lay a minute thinking, and then said in her quiet way, 'I don't know how to express myself, and shouldn't try to anyone but you, because I can't speak out except to my Jo. I only meant to say tha...
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
…Jo vanished without a word. Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, 'Oh, do somebody go down quick; John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg...
{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance,...
You have found your style at last. You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it,
With blue eyes, and yellow hair curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying herself like a young lady mindful of her manners. What the characters of the four sisters were we will l...
Will go, said Jo, looking relieved as the idea occurred
Which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
Never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live.
Many queer things passed through it as through
Happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
For it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
For his Atlanta came panting up with flying hair, bright eyes, ruddy cheeks, and no signs of dissatisfaction in her face.
Crimp
Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it'...
Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not t...