“I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!” — 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
Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty... — 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
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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 Image
“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 wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on one side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined with hotels and villas, while beyond lie orange orchards and 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image