I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.
Louisa May Alcott[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
Louisa May AlcottGood books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Louisa May Alcott