Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway! — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts. — 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
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write… — 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
…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the… — 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
I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and… — 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
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe… — 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
When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why… — 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
