“I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter…”

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

“…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.”

“It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up at the sky as if for information upon his favorite topic.”

“…but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.”

“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)…”

“The youngest, aged twelve, could not conceal her disappointment, and turned away, feeling as so many of us have felt when we discover that our idols are very extraordinary men and women.”

“…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.”

“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's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.”

“…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…”

“Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…”

“…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.”

“…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.”

“…if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield.”

“…the child's heart bled when it was broken.”

“…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…”

“…notoriety is not real glory.”

“If every one agreed, we should never get on.”

“…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.”

“Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.”

“…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.”

“We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.”

“…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.”

“…wisely mingled poetry and prose.”