…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another! — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“...unlocking the treasuries of real home love and mutual helpfulness, which the poorest may possess, and the richest cannot buy.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Jo gave her sister an encouraging pat on the shoulder as they parted for the day, each going a different way, each… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“For in that sad yet happy hour, she had learned not only the bitterness of remorse and despair, but the sweetness of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“By-and-by Jo roamed away upstairs, for it was rainy, and she could not walk. A restless spirit possessed her, and the old… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“It is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves me; he isn’t sentimental, doesn’t say much about it, but I see… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, "It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on you; so mind… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“It’s bad enough to love someone who don’t love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair… — 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
