I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

I hate ordinary people!

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.