That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. Amos Bronson Alcott More Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott More Quotes From Amos Bronson Alcott Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence. Amos Bronson Alcott perspective home heart Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined. Amos Bronson Alcott real revenge men A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. Amos Bronson Alcott delight mortals Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change. Amos Bronson Alcott real world needs A good style fits like a good costume. Amos Bronson Alcott costumes fit style Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. Amos Bronson Alcott light sympathy giving Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. Amos Bronson Alcott analysis inspirational book What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man? Amos Bronson Alcott prejudice giving men Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion. Amos Bronson Alcott kings men travel There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer. Amos Bronson Alcott rays veils truth Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. Amos Bronson Alcott sensitive jealous truth One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm. Amos Bronson Alcott pursuit enthusiasm heart Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. Amos Bronson Alcott criminal-mind intuition speak Every sin provokes its punishment. Amos Bronson Alcott provoking punishment sin Labor humanizes, exalts. Amos Bronson Alcott labor Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks. Amos Bronson Alcott tasks hands ideas Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. Amos Bronson Alcott genius education may Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. Amos Bronson Alcott royal empires government A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again. Amos Bronson Alcott old-habits clothes birthday Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. Amos Bronson Alcott empty-vessels agitation answers
