…because talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

…wisely mingled poetry and prose.

Don’t try to make me grow up before my time…

Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands,” cried the Professor, quite overcome.Jo never, never would learn to be proper,...

In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…

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

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

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 clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly...

I wish I had no heart, it aches so…

I don’t believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are...

Mr. Bhaer saw the drops on her cheeks, … The sight seemed to touch him very much, for suddenly stooping down, he asked in a tone that meant a great deal, “Heart’s dearest, why do...

They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn’t have got...

I look forward all day to evening, and then I put an “engaged” on the door and get into my nice red bath robe and furry slippers and pile all the cushions behind me on...

Love will make you show your heart someday…

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me…

But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

I like good strong words that mean something…

I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

Dear me! how happy and good we’d be, if we had no worries!

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...

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

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

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.

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

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

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.

…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.””They’re not empty now.