Plumfield Quotes & Sayings

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew — Robert Frost

Help one another, was a favorite Plumfield motto, and Nat learned how much sweetness is added to life by trying to live up to it. — Louisa May Alcott

For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple
not because the tree had suddenly laid hold upon some supernormal energy, but because its patient work of self-defense and self release had reached fulfillment. The long-imprisoned tree had freed itself. Nature had had her way. — Lloyd C. Douglas

... if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield. — Louisa May Alcott

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn Vos Savant

His eyes searched every inch of my face. "I don't know . . . if I've ever been this distracted by someone," he said. — Christina Lauren

In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky