Quotes from Howard Mumford Jones

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.