I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness. Louisa May Alcott More Quotes by Louisa May Alcott More Quotes From Louisa May Alcott Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest. Louisa May Alcott highest frost remember Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law. Louisa May Alcott policy honesty law Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us. Louisa May Alcott liberty husband To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage. Louisa May Alcott without-love betray love-is Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it. Louisa May Alcott celebrate salvation work Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power. Louisa May Alcott mother sweet children I think we are all hopelessly flawed. Louisa May Alcott flawed thinking Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you. Louisa May Alcott tyrants abuse power Sympathy is a sweet thing. Louisa May Alcott sweet-things sweet sympathy We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. Louisa May Alcott pretending meg growing-up Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide. Louisa May Alcott oysters sick littles I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy. Louisa May Alcott get-over disappointment boys Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints. Louisa May Alcott saint love-is men It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person. Louisa May Alcott principles trying children Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution. Louisa May Alcott effects constitution elegance Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Louisa May Alcott strong self believe Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction. Louisa May Alcott graduates distinction life-is A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes. Louisa May Alcott kissing blow giving And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts. Louisa May Alcott effort spirit dresses Souls and bodies should go on together. Louisa May Alcott soul-and-body goes-on together
