184 Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.