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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward. things, is reflected back upon itself, and thus made conscious of its reality and shape. It is Self-Realization. As a means, therefore, of educating the soul out of itself, and mirroring forth its ideas, the external world offers the materials. This is the dim glass in which the senses are first called to display the soul, until, aided by the keener state of imagination. it separates those outward types of itself from their sensual connection, in its own bright mirror recognizes again itself, as a distinctive object in space and time, but out of it in existence, and painting itself upon these, as emblems of its inner and super-sensual life which no outward thing can fully portray. A language is to be instituted between [the child’s] spirit and the surrounding scene of things in which he dwells. . He who is seeking to know himself, should be ever seeking himself in external things, and by so doing will he be best able to find, and explore his inmost light.Amos Bronson Alcott
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.Amos Bronson Alcott
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.Amos Bronson Alcott
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.Amos Bronson Alcott
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Our ideals are our better selves.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.Amos Bronson Alcott
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.Amos Bronson Alcott
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.Amos Bronson Alcott
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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.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.Amos Bronson Alcott
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.Amos Bronson Alcott
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.Amos Bronson Alcott
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The less routine the more life.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.Amos Bronson Alcott
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.Amos Bronson Alcott
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.Amos Bronson Alcott