“I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty... — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“How beautiful that is!" said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I always say my life’s quote is, “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Oh, don't I wish I could manage things for you as I do for my heroines! You're pretty enough and good enough… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“figure full of the affluent beauty of womanhood in its prime, bearing unmistakable marks of the polished pupil of the world in… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“A fit queen for that nest of roses was the human flower that adorned it, for a year of love and luxury… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place, for the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“Please could I say one word?" was the question three times repeated before a rough head boobed out from the grotto of books in… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“I read somewhere that every inch of rope used in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so that wherever a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“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… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
“ "I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the world within." ” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share