More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women
Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
