Quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

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

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

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

The less routine the more life.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

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