Amos Bronson Alcott

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Many can argue - not many converse.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Every sin provokes its punishment.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The richest minds need not large libraries.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A good style fits like a good costume.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any…

— 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

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it…

— 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

The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

— Amos Bronson Alcott