Louisa May Alcott: Trending quotes (page 7)

“Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.”

“Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her…”

“Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.”

“If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it…”

“… and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.”

“Strong convictions precede great actions.”

“We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.”

“I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.”

“Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…”

“Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”

“We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want.
~Amy March~”

“Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!”

“Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.”

“The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.”

“I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!”

“[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.”

“…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”

“Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.”

“Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!”