Quotes from Louisa May Alcott

Meg, and altogether too much of a weathercock just now for anyone to depend on. Don't make plans, Jo

Shrouded in a thick veil

I don't know why I can't love you as you want me to. I've tried, but I can't change the feeling, and it would be a lie to say I do when I don't.

Nuestras cargas están aquí, nuestro camino está delante de nosotras y el deseo de bondad y felicidad es el guía que nos dirige a través de muchas penas y equivocaciones hasta la paz, que es una verdadera Ciudad Celestial.

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. 'It's so dreadful to be poor!' sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind.

it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants, doesn't it?

Sé por experiencia propia que en un hogar sencillo, en el que se trabaja para ganar el pan, se puede ser muy feliz, y que sufrir pequeñas privaciones ayuda a valorar más lo que se tiene. No me importa que Meg lleve una vida sencilla porque, si no me equivoco, dispondrá de la mejor riqueza: el corazón de un hombre bueno. Y esa es la mejor de las fortunas.

Los hombres sólo gruñen cuando tienen hambre

she often "wept a little weep

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

But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.

I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath.

Don't grieve and fret or think that you can comfort yourself by being idle and trying to forget. Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. Hope and keep busy.

Give them all mu dear love and a kiss. tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.

ought to have read more, for I find I don't know anything, and it mortifies me.

AMY'S LECTURE DID Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it.

I've done a good many rash and foolish things in my life, but I don't think I ever was mad enough to say I'd make six calls in one day, when a single one upsets me for a week.

Give them all my dear love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.

when I seemed most like a child I was learning to be a woman.

beautifully gratified, said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's

He danced like a grasshopper on fire

If only we had this,' or 'If we could only do that,' quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many things they actually could do. So they asked an old woman what spell they could use to make them happy, and she said, 'When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful.

Don't take all," whispered her neighbor, a young lady of great presence of mind. Amy