Louisa May Alcott

"She is my first friend, my best friend, and my forever friend."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Four sisters, parted for an hour/None lost, one only gone before/Made by love's immortal power/Nearest and dearest evermore."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Be worthy love, and love will come."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Four sisters, parted for an hour/None lost, one only gone before/Made by love’s immortal power/Nearest and dearest evermore."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Love is a great beautifier."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Be worthy of love, and love will come."

- Louisa May Alcott

"...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy."

- Louisa May Alcott

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."

- Louisa May Alcott

"A clean house is a happy house."

- Louisa May Alcott

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Housekeeping ain’t no joke."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Don't try to make me grow up before my time…"

- Louisa May Alcott

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

""It takes two flints to make a fire.""

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"Mothers 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 Alcott

"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!"

- Louisa May Alcott

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”"

- Louisa May Alcott

"Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell."

- Louisa May Alcott

"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Every house needs a grandmother in it."

- Louisa May Alcott

"I make so many beginnings there never will be an end."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned, and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."

- Louisa May Alcott

"A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun."

- 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

"I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."

- Louisa May Alcott