Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing. - Louisa May Alcott

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

…notoriety is not real glory.

Jo’s ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea as yet, but left it for time to tell her; and, meanwhile, found her greatest affliction in the fact that she couldn’t read, run, and ride as much as she liked. 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.