Best Amos Bronson Alcott Sayings
- Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. Accessible
- Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the… Been
- Opposition strengthens the manly will. Funny
- Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. Along
- The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism. Catholic
- One's outlook is a part of his virtue. Inspirational
- Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. Divination
- Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants. Belief
- One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new… Acquaintance
- Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader… Acquaint
- Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history Change
- Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides. Accost
- As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind. Becomes
- Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty. Contrition
- I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future. Find
- Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and… Been
- Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life. Brisk
- An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of… Age
- If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato… Ancients
- Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother… Beyond
- Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. Beguiles
- One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record. Entertainment
- Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance. Becomes
- The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science… Affect
- Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only. Any
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