“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”
~Amos Bronson Alcott, American author, educator & social reformer
Cited by friend Ralph Waldo Emerson in a journal entry (March 1845) in Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. VII [1845-1848], eds. Edward Waldo Emerson & Waldo Emerson Forbes, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912, p. 26; online via Cornell University Library & Internet Archive, www.archive.org