Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!