- "Little Tranquility"
- [...] dear me, let us be elegant or die!
- There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in a corner till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
- The two girls were a great deal to one another, but each took one of the younger into her keeping and watched over in her own way - "playing mother" they called it - and put their sister in the places of discarded dolls with the maternal instinct of little women.
- These girls . . . were constantly saying "If we only had this" or "If we could only do that" quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many pleasant things they could actually do. [...] So they agreed to stop complaining, to enjoy the blessings already possessed, and try to deserve them, lest they should be taken away entirely, instead of increased.
- [...] the "Laurence boy" who looked as if he would like to be known, if he only knew how to begin.
- "Is Beth the rosy one, who stays at home a good deal and sometimes goes out with a little basket?"
- So they soon forgot their pride and interchanged kindness without stopping to think which was the greater.
- . . . for love casts out fear
- . . . never get tired of trying
- I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it; and I still hope to learn not to feel it.
- . . . the knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it, made her own easier to bear
- He . . . showed me that I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier to try for your sakes than for my own.
- [...] go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.
- He was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.
- If people really want to, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in, for I don't believe there are any locks on that door or any guards at the gate. (Beth here must be talking about Heaven)
- [..] a young man's hatred of subjection, a young man's restless longing to try the world for himself
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