If every one agreed, we should never get on.
…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
Better lose your life than your soul…
…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at...
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…
…nothing seemed impossible in the beginning…
…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
I like good strong words that mean something…
I hate ordinary people!
And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…
…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.
…but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.
In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…
I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.