184 Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.