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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Our ideals are our better selves.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The less routine the more life.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. Furthermore, he will have no disciples.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

— Amos Bronson Alcott