Quotemeal for Thursday, October 12, 2023

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Quotemeal

"The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."

— Lillian Hellman —

"We should never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect...."

— Edward Everett Hale —

"A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to everyone."

— Martin Luther —

"The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his..."

— T. S. Eliot —