Private Institutions

Famous quotes containing the words private and/or institutions:

    “I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)