Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.

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

Dolls are safe companions.