Quotes from Louisa May Alcott

tras las nubes siempre llega la luz.

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.

had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.

Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life.

a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it not as a queen, but as a wise wife and mother.

For love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

I think that woman can do a great deal for each other if they will only stop fearing what 'people will think' and take a hearty interest in whatever is going to fit their sisters and themselves to deserve and enjoy the rights God gave them. There are so many ways in which this can be done that I wonder they don't see and improve them.

You men tell us we are angels, and say we can make you what we will; but the instant we honestly try to do you good, you laugh at us, and won't listen. which proves how much your flattery is worth.

Don't you feel that it is pleasanter to help one another, to have daily duties with make leisure sweet when it comes, and to bear and for bear, that home may be comfortable and lovely to us all?

Virtue was its own reward.

It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.

Seldom except in books do the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances, and those who have sped many parting souls know that to most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

No, I drank champagne and romped and tried to flirt, and was altogether abominable, said Meg reproachfully.

I know better! broke in Laurie. You think so now, but there'll come a time when you will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him. I know you will, it's your way, and I shall have to stand by and see it, and the despairing lover cast his hat upon the ground with a gesture that would have seemed comical, if his face had not been so tragic.

So you see [the act of teaching] teaches me also, and is as good as a general review of what I've learned, in a pleasanter way than going over it alone.

I read somewhere that every inch of rope used in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so that wherever a bit of it is found it is known. That is the text of my little sermon to you. Virtue, which means honour, honesty, courage, and all that makes character, is the red thread that marks a good man wherever he is.

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

He was not a perfect child, by any means, but his faults were of the better sort; and being early taught the secret of self-control, he was not left at the mercy of appetites and passions, as some poor little mortals are, and then punished for yielding to the temptations against which they have no armor.

But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally, so though she believed she knew the cause of Beth's new pain, she only said, in her tenderest tone, "Does anything trouble you, deary?

Salt is like good humor, and nearly everything is better for a pinch of it.

That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he? said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

for love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.