184 Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.