Quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott

Our ideals are our better selves.

The less routine the more life.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

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.