Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.
Louisa May AlcottNow and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
Louisa May AlcottKeep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
Louisa May Alcott