Louisa May Alcott

_feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

_possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants_

But, like all happiness, it did not last long_

Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can.

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

Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.

Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: "When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be so yourself.

Kindness in looks and words and ways is true politeness, and any one can have it if they only try to treat other people as they like to be treated themselves.

Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You__e ready to go out and _ and find a good use for your talent. Tho_ I don__ know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

You don__ need scores of suitors. You need only one_ if he__ the right one.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

_nothing remained but loneliness and grief_

This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,'" said Mrs. Jessie sadly.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.