Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious — Amos Bronson Alcott
Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Easy come, easy go… “Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing” schemes don’t work, they are just not — Amos Bronson Alcott
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. — Amos Bronson Alcott
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. — Amos Bronson Alcott
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. — 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
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. — Amos Bronson Alcott
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament — Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweet the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. — Amos Bronson Alcott
He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Who loves a garden still his eden keeps, perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott