Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

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)


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.