The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age… has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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.
A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
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.
