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

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.