Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
From Amos Bronson Alcott
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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.
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. He will have no disciples.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
The less routine the more life.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Our ideals are our better selves.
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