Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcottwas an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth29 November 1799
CountryUnited States of America
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
Many can argue - not many converse.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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.
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.