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

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

It’s lovely to see people so happy.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

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.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Many argue; not many converse.

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

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

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.