The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes. […]
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works, and the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy.
It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
