Quote: Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Our ideals are our better selves. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: The less routine the more life. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: The surest sign of age is loneliness. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Quote: That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. [Amos Bronson Alcott]