Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.