Explore Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

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

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

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.

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

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

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.

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

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

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

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

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

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.