…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 … - Louisa May Alcott

Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!

But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally,

I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue. You'll find that is true, Rose, when you know the world better.

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