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
... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been
The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
...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.
...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.