Little Men (Little Women, #2)

by Louisa May Alcott

If you exercise your mind, George, it will get hungry just as your body does, and you will love books almost as much as my philosopher here,"

"Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it,

"We have a way of sending messages to one another, without any words. It is a great improvement on the telegraph."

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

But she would not be quenched and she would be heard, for her will was strong, and she had the spirit of a rampant reformer.

all that was best and bravest in a character made old by a hard experience responded to the love and faith bestowed on him,

"Only good. That is all and every thing,"

slowly he came to feel that father was not lost, only invisible for a while, and sure to be found again, well and strong and fond as ever, even though his little son should see the purple asters blossom on his grave many, many times before they met.

he loved books so well he hated work, and just wanted to sit and study all day long."

For love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.