Waldo

Famous quotes containing the word waldo:

    A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,—the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead. The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)