But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

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

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.