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
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.