Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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.

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.

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