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Man Can Never Come Up To His Ideal Standard. It Is The Nature Of The Immortal Spirit To Raise That Standard Higher And Higher As It Goes From Strength To Strength, Still Upward And Onward. The Wisest And Greatest Men Are Ever The Most Modest.

-Margaret Fuller

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Man Can Never Come Up

Margaret Fuller

Man Can Never Come Up To His Ideal Standard. It Is The Nature Of The Immortal Spirit To Raise That Standard Higher And Higher As It Goes From Strength To Strength, Still Upward And Onward. The Wisest And Greatest Men Are Ever The Most Modest.

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