Quotes from Louisa May Alcott

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Money is a needful and precious thing

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Mothers can forgive anything!

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

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.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but wecan't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way.

Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.

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

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.