Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.
Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.
…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…
…if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and cha...
…for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.
It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up at the sky as if for information upon his favorite topic.
I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
Don't suggest that we are growing old, my Lord. We have only bloomed; and a very nice bouquet we make with our buds about us,' answered Mrs. Amy, shaking out the folds of her rosy muslin with much the...
…he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self…
…had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.
…growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how...
I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as litt...
I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter…
…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo…
The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life.
So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something…