I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

It's lovely to see people so happy.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

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