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
Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse
There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
Opposition strengthens the manly will.
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.