Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.
Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.
She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.