Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes & Sayings

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

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”

“The less routine the more life.”

“First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.”

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”

“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”

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

“That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.”

“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.”

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