There is no other help or hope for human weakness but God's love and patience. - Louisa May Alcott

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life — uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

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