Amos Bronson Alcott
16 quotations
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Our ideals are our better selves.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
The less routine the more life.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.