William H. Crogman: Quotes about men

William H. Crogman was American classical philologist. Explore interesting quotes on men.
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“A large proportion of the offices in this vast country is not held by the best, most learned and most cultivated men, but by men of mediocre attainments, whose hearts and whose eyes have been fixed on those places, and who, to obtain them, have used every means, honorable and dishonorable.”

William H. Crogman

Source: Talks for the Times (1896), "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), p. 281

“Neither the black boy nor the white will ever be educated in the best and broadest sense of the term who seeks an education merely to reach an office, for, as in nature a stream never rises higher than its source, so in life men never rise higher than their ideals. The education that merely seeks an office must of necessity be limited to the dimensions of that office.”

William H. Crogman

Source: Talks for the Times (1896), "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), p. 281

“Let us not, however, deceive ourselves with the thought that vaulting ambition, that lust for power and place is a disease peculiar to great minds, for nothing is more commonly found among ordinary men in the humbler walks of life. We need not travel very far in any direction to find a little Caesar or a little Napoleon.”

William H. Crogman

Source: Talks for the Times (1896), "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), p. 276