Creative Quotations from Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Louisa May Alcott
(1832-1888) born on Nov 29

US novelist. "Her book "Little Women," 1868, sold millions of copies."

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!"

"A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well."

It takes two flints to make a fire.

"Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more."

"It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R:	""My Kingdom," st. 1."
A:	""Little Women," 1868."
N:	"Amy March, in "Little Women," pt. 2, ch. 16, 1869."
K:	""Jo's Boys," 1886."