Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTWild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt’s lovely to see people so happy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTHe was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTNothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMen are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTPeople want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMany argue; not many converse.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTLove is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI like good strong words that mean something.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMoney is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTMothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTSome books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTIt takes two flints to make a fire.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTDon’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTTI often think flowers are the angels’ alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT