You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

I don't know why I can't love you as you want me to. I've tried, but I can't change the feeling, and it would be a lie to say I do when I don't.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands," cried the Professor, quite overcome.Jo never, never would learn to be proper, for when he said that as they stood upon the steps, she just put both hands into his, whispering tenderly, "Not empty now," and, stooping down, kissed her Friedrich under the umbrella.

It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you, so mind what you do, or I'll come and bring you home.

How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

El amor es planta que arraiga en todos los suelos, que se desarrolla sin miedo a las heladas del otoño o a las nieves del invierno, y que florece siempre, perfumando y bendiciendo así por igual a quienes lo otorgan y a quienes lo reciben.