"The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together."

"You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one if he's the right one."

"Who are your heroes?" asked Jo."Grandfather and Napoleon."

"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."

"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."

"I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day."

"In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them."

"Possessed of that indescribable charm called grace."

"Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy."

"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'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo."

"I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods."

"Jo to her mother I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family."

"I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this."

"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."

"Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace."

"Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: "When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be so yourself."

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."

"Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."

"For action is always easier than quiet waiting."

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."

"What shall you do all your vacation?', asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg."

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

"It's lovely to see people so happy."

"I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them."

"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."

"Growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how wonderfully Providence trains us by disappointment, surprises us with unexpected success, and turns our seeming trials into blessing."

"Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic."

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."

"In silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow."

"Color makes no difference; the peeps are gray, the seals are black, and the crabs yellow; but we don't care, and are all friends. It is very unkind to treat you so."

"I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her."

"He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth."

"I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country."

"It's genius simmering, perhaps. I'll let it simmer, and see what comes of it, he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn't genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer."

"As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures."

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."

"Books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."

"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."

"Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts."

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

"People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world."

"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."

"Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."

"Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty..."

"A woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck."

""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

"Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can."

"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy."

"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."