"This is my Sunday closet," she said, showing him shelves filled with picture-books, paint boxes, architectural blocks, little diaries, and materials for letter-writing. "I want my boys to love Sunday, to find it a peaceful pleasant day, when they can rest from common study and play, yet enjoy quiet pleasures, and learn, in simple ways, lessons more important than any taught in school. Do you understand me?" she asked, watching Nat's attentive face.
"You mean to be good?" he said, after hesitating a minute.
"Yes; to be good, and to love to be good. It is hard work sometimes, I know very well; but we all help one another and so we get on."
--Jo (March) Bhaer speaking to Nat, the new boy at her Plumfield school
Excerpt from Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Hope you had a pleasant, good Sabbath!
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