More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
