Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

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.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Is it not meningitis?

...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.