Henry Clay Trumbull Quote

There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.


Quoted by by Richard Foster in Renovare' perspective, Vol. 7, No.2, April, 1997.


There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render...

There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render...

There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render...

There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render...