184 Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Inspiration must find answering inspiration.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.