Marmee and Louisa Quotes

“Do not be alarmed by the number of books which it is desirable you should read; nor be induced to read with too great a rapidity...Haste in reading is a great waste of mind as well as time: of mind because it weakens the power of observation; of time because nothing is in fact accomplished." -Samuel Joseph May to sister Abigail May Alcott (mother of Louisa May Alcott (family letters, May 19, 1819)”
― Eve LaPlante, Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother