“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
“. . . children should draw [a husband & wife] nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were all yours,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls. If rank and money come… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“My Jo, you may say anything to your mother, for it is my greatest happiness and pride to feel that my girls… — 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
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant… — 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
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
“Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.” — 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
“…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants… — 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… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“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
