Louisa May AlcottThinkers

Argument takes two flints to make a fire.

The Baby is God's noblest work, for men are often bad, babies never are.

The Book can be so familiar that reading it is like being home again.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up.

God is in the hearts of all, and they that seek shall surely find Him when they need Him most.

Liberty is a better husband than love.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Money is a needful and precious thing—and, when well used, a noble thing—but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

A Mother is one who has need of sharp eyes and a discreet tongue.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year, said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frost-bitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively...

November is the most disagreeable month in the entire year.

A Philosopher is a man up in a balloon. with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.