Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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.
But, like all happiness, it did not last long.
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.