Quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well.

A birthday is a good time to begin anew; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them on again.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our ideals are our better selves.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

The less of routine, the more of life.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.

Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..

The less routine the more life.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression