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Quotes by A. Bronson Alcott

  • Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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  • Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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  • That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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