897 Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Mothers can forgive anything!

to marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage ...