For those who are the inheritors of a noble estate and a high place in the world, it is a good thing to pause at intervals and consider by what favor of fortune and of ancestry their lines have fallen in such pleasant places. Thus to meditate upon that course of events, which has given them what they have and made them what they are, will tend to remind them how great is their debt and how little is their share of merit.


The Reign of Law (1925)

Calvin Coolidge Quotes

For those who are the inheritors of a noble estate and a high place in the world, it is a good thing to pause at intervals and consider by what favor ...

For those who are the inheritors of a noble estate and a high place in the world, it is a good thing to pause at intervals and consider by what favor ...

For those who are the inheritors of a noble estate and a high place in the world, it is a good thing to pause at intervals and consider by what favor ...

For those who are the inheritors of a noble estate and a high place in the world, it is a good thing to pause at intervals and consider by what favor ...