897 Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill cry, In the quiet, dusky chamber, By the flickering firelight, Rising up between two sleepers, Comes a spirit all in white.

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

O vanity, mislead no more!

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

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