No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles. — 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
If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right… — 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
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that… — 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
