Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcottwas an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Womenand its sequels Little Menand Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 November 1832
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
Mothers can forgive anything!
to marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage ...
Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
People cannot be molded like clay.
A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
Where the heart is the mind works best.
Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.
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 cry, In the quiet, dusky chamber, By the flickering firelight, Rising up between two sleepers, Comes a spirit all in white.
O vanity, mislead no more!
I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.