Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

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

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'