184 Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

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.

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

Ignorance is innocence – stupidity comes with experience.