Amos Bronson Alcott

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

"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

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

"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."

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

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