• Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  American educator and social reformer 1799-1888
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. embraces
2. ornament
3. paradise
4. children
5. complete
6. picture

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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. by : Amos Bronson Alcott

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