…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.
That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her…
It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not.
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, wives,...
I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win
…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
Perhaps it would have been better if he had killed me; my life is spoilt.
But, like all happiness, it did not last long,
…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.
…she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.
…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.
…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother r...
Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…
…the little girls wore a grave, troubled expression, as if sorrow was a new experience to them.
We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.
Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply.Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that; and to be bidden to 'run away, dear...
By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper)…