One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Concord is a classic land. The names of Emerson and Thoreau and Channing and Hawthorne are associated with the fields and forests and lakes… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.” — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
