It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Age is no better, hardly as well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. The luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another. Men have become tools of their tools.
All inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.
They are but improved means to an unimproved end which it was already too easy to arrive at . Men say , Go about doing good . Set about being good. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.