Modern Set

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or set:

“The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

“There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)