Amos Bronson Alcott

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

The less routine the more life.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

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

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

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

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.