...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

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.

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

...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.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!