[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

“...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”

“Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and…”

“All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and make…”

“leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the …”