Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years ma...
Show MoreThe less routine the more life.
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old ...
Show MoreThe true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He g...
Show MoreStrengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward ....
Show MoreObservation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring ...
Show MoreA government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption a...
Show MoreOur friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were success...
Show MoreSuccess is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
