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 Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life. Amos Bronson Alcott routine spirit thinking Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. Amos Bronson Alcott real life mean The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify. Amos Bronson Alcott feet spring philosophy Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor. Amos Bronson Alcott pariahs genius firsts A chaste generation would restore Paradise. Amos Bronson Alcott chaste paradise generations Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies! Amos Bronson Alcott assuming mother names Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty. Amos Bronson Alcott liberty soul evil 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. Amos Bronson Alcott disappointment might long Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. Amos Bronson Alcott modesty virtue flower The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world. Amos Bronson Alcott mind men world Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. Amos Bronson Alcott desert men lying Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey. Amos Bronson Alcott journey heart book The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears. Amos Bronson Alcott depth ignorance sound The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood. Amos Bronson Alcott brotherhood race mind Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. Amos Bronson Alcott equanimity calendars virtue My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages. Amos Bronson Alcott portraits personality book Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless. Amos Bronson Alcott mythology heartless 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. Amos Bronson Alcott eras age book Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. Amos Bronson Alcott abandonment surrender ideas A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women. Amos Bronson Alcott court views men
