An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. Amos Bronson Alcott More Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott More Quotes From Amos Bronson Alcott The less routine the more life. Amos Bronson Alcott routinelife-changinglife A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. Amos Bronson Alcott mind-your-own-businessgovernmentfall Our ideals are our better selves. Amos Bronson Alcott idealismselfinspirational Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. Amos Bronson Alcott friendsfriendshipworld Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure. Amos Bronson Alcott deep-thoughtlessonshumor Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience Amos Bronson Alcott innocencestupidityignorance Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. Amos Bronson Alcott mommotherhome Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom. Amos Bronson Alcott prudencefootprint One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's. Amos Bronson Alcott doe To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. Amos Bronson Alcott humorousignoranceinspirational I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future. Amos Bronson Alcott forecastsfuturepast Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. Amos Bronson Alcott femininedebateconversation Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. Amos Bronson Alcott impliedwomenifs Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman. Amos Bronson Alcott angeranimalblood Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. Amos Bronson Alcott refusewrittenlines The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples. Amos Bronson Alcott teachingeducationteacher Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll. Amos Bronson Alcott oceanstarsnature 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. Amos Bronson Alcott building-housesplatoideas Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. Amos Bronson Alcott errandseyetravel 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. Amos Bronson Alcott motherbirdcountry
