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.

Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest...

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest...

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

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

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its...

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its...

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter...

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter...

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

The less routine the more life.

The less routine the more life.

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

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

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our...

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our...

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any...

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden,...

One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden,...

What we think, we become.

What we think, we become.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory...

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory...