To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.