Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Success]

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Success]

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Sympathy]

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.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Teachers and Teaching]

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Thoughts and Thinking]

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Persuasion]

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Psychology]

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Quotations]

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Learning]

The less routine the more life.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Life and Living]

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Mothers]

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 - [Family]

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Friends and Friendship]

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Government]

Our ideals are our better selves.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Ideals and Idealism]

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Ignorance]

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Conversation]

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Dreams]

The surest sign of age is loneliness.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Age and Aging]

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott - [Age and Aging]