The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.