“…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.”

“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.”

“…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…”

“ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.”

“...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.”

“Better destroy the body than the soul.'" ~Rosamond”

“Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.”