897 Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

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

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

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

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.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

Many argue; not many converse.