Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
An American teacher and writer.
(1799 - 1888)
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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.
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A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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A government for protecting the coarser interests of the body, business and bread only, is but a carcass, and soon falls, by its own corruption, to decay.
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A man defines his standing at the court of chastity, by his views of women. - He cannot be any man's friend, nor his own, if not hers.
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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
[Against]
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Agriculture, for an honorable and high-minded man, says Xenophon, "is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living."
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Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
[Ancestry]
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Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
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Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Debate is masculine; conversation feminine.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
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Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
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Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
[Education]
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