Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Delight, Youth

• A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Friendship, Rest Of Life, Childhood

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.81

• In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Disappointment, Long, Might

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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