More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
Many argue; not many converse.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
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.
...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.
When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
