Top 120 Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

102. “A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

103. “Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

104. “The richest minds need not large libraries.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

105. “Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

106. “Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

107. “A friendship formed in childhood, in youth, – by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood, – becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

108. “The less of routine, the more of life.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

109. “Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

110. “Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

111. “A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

112. “Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

113. “The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

114. “Inspiration must find answering inspiration.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

115. “Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

116. “Every sin provokes its punishment.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

117. “Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

118. “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?”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

119. “The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

120. “Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

121. “Labor humanizes, exalts.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

122. “Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

123. “There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

124. “I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

125. “Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

126. “Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

127. “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.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

128. “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.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

129. “Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

130. “Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

131. “Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

132. “Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

133. “Opposition strengthens the manly will.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

134. “Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

135. “Traveling is no fool’s errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

136. “I am an idea without hands.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

137. “When a man’s own culture falls behind that of his time, he is conservative. When it outstrips and enables him to over-see his time, he is a reformer.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott