Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

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

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.