Louisa May Alcott Quotes - Page 10

Liberty must not be abused.

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

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

Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

Books are always good company if you have the right sort.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

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.

...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

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

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.

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

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least.