John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

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

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.