Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to… — 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
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. — 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
