Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
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...
…trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up a word of encouragement.
…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.
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...
…Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something…
…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are b...
…Mrs. Jo sat smiling over her book as she built castles in the air, just as she used to do when a girl, only then they were for herself, and now they were for other people, which is the reason perhaps...
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
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...
Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
…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...
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'...