Heartwarming / Little Men

• In Little Men, Jo is trying to teach Daisy how to cook and hang curtains at the same time, while Fritz keeps coming in to make interjections. She finally drops the curtain on his head and tells him to stop, or else she'll "come in and moralize while you are teaching Latin, and how would you like that?"
  Fritz: "Very much, try it and see."
• The fact that in Little Men and Jo's Boys, the principal characters are one big happy family - Mr and Mrs March, the March sisters, their husbands, children, and the Plumfield students. Franz and Emil are actually cousins of only Rob and Teddy (through Fritz), but they also regard Rob and Teddy's other cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents (through Jo) as their own kin. They call Jo's father "Grandpa," and her sisters and brothers-in-law "Aunt" and "Uncle." Likewise, Emil is the favourite cousin of Josie, Meg's second daughter, though they are not actually relatives to each other.
  • At one point, Teddy refers to Emil as a "son of Bhaer," with the narration noting that Fritz has cared for Emil and Franz so long that there's hardly any difference between his love for them and for his own two sons, and that Rob and Teddy have always considered them as older brothers.
• Franz and Emil are both devastated by John Brooke's death, with Franz having apparently cried the entire night, and Emil declaring that "Uncle Fritz is the wisest and Uncle Laurie the jolliest, but Uncle John was the best, and I'd rather be like him more than any other man I ever knew."
• All of "Damon and Pythias." Dan sells a book he valued a lot to repay a theft he didn't commit and then when this is discovered confesses to that same theft in order to keep the other boys from tormenting the wrongfully blamed Nat. Fritz makes the comparison to the mythological figures once the truth comes out.