897 Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

We thought to weep, but sing for joy instead,Full of the grateful peaceThat follows her release;For nothing but the weary dust lies dead.

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.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

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

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.

I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle--something heroic, or wonderful--that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.