Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.

If I had learned to read I should not perhaps have stolen the bread. You see, I could not learn to read. When I was at the galleys, I learned. There was a school for convicts.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play.

I will try and be what he loves to call me—a little woman—and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here, where I am, as well as I can, because I see now that courage isn’t only for soldiers, and battles are fought in kitchens and sickrooms and hearts, where no drum is heard, and no flag is flying.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship; and though the winds are rough, and the sky is dark, I keep my little helm steady, watching the waves with all my might, for I have faith that I shall reach the harbor at last, if I only work on bravely and wait.

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…

Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.`

We learn from failure, not from success; and our failures have taught us to believe the strange evidence of our eyes, and to act together without delay. We have been blind, but now we must keep notes, keep watch, and keep faith, for there are no little things in great affairs.

Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end!

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.