Moods Quotes

“Then they went floating under vernal arches, where a murmurous rustle seemed to whisper, "Stay!" along shadowless sweeps, where the blue turned to gold and dazzled with its unsteady shimmer; passed islands so full of birds they seemed green cages floating in the sun, or doubled capes that opened long vistas of light and shade, through which they sailed into the pleasant land where summer reigned supreme. To Sylvia it seemed as if the inhabitants of these solitudes had flocked down to the shore to greet her as she came. Fleets of lilies unfurled their sails on either hand, and cardinal flowers waved their scarlet flags among the green. The sagittaria lifted its blue spears from arrowy leaves; wild roses smiled at her with blooming faces; meadow lilies rang their flame-colored bells; and clematis and ivy hung garlands everywhere, as if hers were a floral progress, and each came to do her honor.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Moods

“Friendship is the best college character can graduate from. Believe in it, seek for it, and when it comes keep it as sacredly as love.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Moods

“Talvolta lo Scultore che fa del mondo la sua arte miscela diversi materiali nel dar forma a una nobile statua, lasciando che sia l'umanità a criticarla. E quando il tempo ne attenua sia la bellezza che i difetti, lui la sposta in un laboratorio più interno per darle una forma più permanente scolpita nel marmo.
Adam Warwick era come quella statua, con tutte le sue imperfezioni e le sue leghe di metallo. Ma dietro ogni difetto l'occhio esperto del Maestro vide quelle linee sublimi in grado di fungere da modello di perfezione, e quando il suo progetto passò al vaglio ogni dovuto processo - il calco di creta, il fuoco delle fornaci, la prova del tempo - Egli rimosse ogni traccia di polvere superflua e lo giudicò pronto per il marmo.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Moods