I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

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

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

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

where I wholly love I wholly trust.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.