To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“There is no other help or hope for human weakness but God's love and patience.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Don't take it away! It's only a fancy, but a man must love something…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“That's loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like 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
“Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way. — 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
“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
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I can't love anyone else; and I'll never forget you, Jo, never! never!" with a stamp to emphasize his passionate words. -… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Four little chests all in a row, Dim with dust, and worn by time, Four women, taught by weal and woe To… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“There was a good deal of laughing, and kissing, and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home festivals so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it.… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so… — 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… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can overcome and outlive them… — 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
“No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“[F]or in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Come, Philander, let us be a marching, Every one his true love a searching," Would be the most appropriate motto for this… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Give them all of my dear love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by… — 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