…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

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

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

...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

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.

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.