Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
Amos Bronson AlcottOur favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
Amos Bronson AlcottI consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
Amos Bronson AlcottGood-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
Amos Bronson Alcott