“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Business
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“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conversation
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“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sympathy
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“That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Persuasion
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“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Mothers
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“The less routine the more life.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Learning
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“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Ignorance
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“Our ideals are our better selves.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Friendship
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“Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Dream
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“The surest sign of age is loneliness.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Age
