Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work.

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.