Elevation Point

Famous quotes containing the words elevation and/or point:

    Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
    Richard Steele (1672–1729)