The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.


Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1880)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.