Louisa May Alcott - Eight Cousins (1875)

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Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

Louisa May Alcott
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

Louisa May Alcott
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Louisa May Alcott
It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

Louisa May Alcott
The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

Louisa May Alcott
If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

Louisa May Alcott
So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

Louisa May Alcott
Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

Louisa May Alcott
Fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles and maiden aunts; and it is my private opinion that these worthy creatures are a beautiful provision of nature for the cherishing of other people's children.

Louisa May Alcott
For it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

Louisa May Alcott
To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on

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

Louisa May Alcott
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.

Louisa May Alcott
We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

Louisa May Alcott
As Rose stood by him watching the ease with which he quickly brought order out of chaos, she privately resolved to hunt up her old arithmetic and perfect herself in the four first rules, with a good tug at fractions, before she read any more fairy tales.

Louisa May Alcott