Amos Bronson Alcott

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Our ideals are our better selves.”

“The less routine the more life.”

“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”

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

“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.”

“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.”