Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson AlcottA government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson AlcottWe climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson AlcottWhat higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?
Amos Bronson Alcott