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
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep… — 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
A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never… — 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
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
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first… — 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
