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_

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

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_

I like good strong words that mean something_

_no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.

_she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world_

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so_

_marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.