Quotes by Alcott, Amos Bronson

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon >>

The surest sign of age is loneliness. >>

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. >>

Quotations about Persuasion

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. >>

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. >>

Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able >>

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson