184 Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.