Quotes by : Amos Bronson Alcott

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

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

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

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

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

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

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

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and....