Amos Bronson Alcott quotes

" Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. " # Success # Procrastination # Love

" The less routine the more life. " # Life and Living

" One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. " # Quotations # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

" That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. " # Books - Reading

" To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. " # Ignorance

" While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. " # Age and Aging # Happiness # Company

" Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. " # Speakers and Speaking # Marriage # Happiness

" The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. " # Teachers and Teaching # Love # Friends and Friendship

" Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. " # Sympathy # Happiness # Body

" Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. " # Conversation # Men # Women