in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
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Aphorisms by Amos Bronson Alcott
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
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.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.
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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
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I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.
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