Category: Amos Bronson Alcott

“Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.”
-Amos Bronson Alcott

“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
-Amos Bronson Alcott

“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.”
-Amos Bronson Alcott

“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.”
-Amos Bronson Alcott

“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”
-Amos Bronson Alcott

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”
-Amos Bronson Alcott

“The less routine the more life.”
-Amos Bronson Alcott