Variant: I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.
Source: Little Women

“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.”

Louisa May Alcott book An Old-Fashioned Girl

Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl

“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”

Louisa May Alcott

“Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.”

Louisa May Alcott book Jo's Boys

Source: Jo's Boys

“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?”

Louisa May Alcott

“Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -”

Louisa May Alcott

“Love covers a multitude of sins…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women