…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

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

where I wholly love I wholly trust.