…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…
…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at...
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there’s no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says...
In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…
If every one agreed, we should never get on.
…and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam.
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Better lose your life than your soul…
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
I like good strong words that mean something…
And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…
…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.