Quotes by : Amos Bronson Alcott

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.....

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

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

Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the....

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

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

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides....

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward .....

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