Amos Bronson Alcott
"If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?"
Amos Bronson Alcott
"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."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"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."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers."
Amos Bronson Alcott
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