184 Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author’s portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history.

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another’s.

The less of routine, the more of life.

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them – structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

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

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more; – book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

Many can argue – not many converse.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.