…had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.
…for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.
Women work a good many miracles…
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.
I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
AMY’S LECTURE DID Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have pers...
…thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.
…but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.
…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo…
We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.
So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole ear,' said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.'That's the reason I was born in it,' observe...
Never take advice!
I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
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...
…trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up a word of encouragement.
…he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self…
…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter…
Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.