Louisa May Alcott Quotes

"I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

"They're not empty now."

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it. — Laurie

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

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

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

I could have been a great many things.