Glass Society

Famous quotes containing the words glass and/or society:

“The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th’observed of all observers.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers. In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached. Here the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)