He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.