Quote of the Day: “The Benefit We Receive Must Be Rendered Again, Line for Line, Deed for Deed, Cent for Cent, to Somebody.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in Boston in 1803, was a former minister who became the central voice of American Transcendentalism. In his 1841 essay “Compensation,” he wrote a sentence that now sits at the root of the modern idea of paying it forward: “The benefit we receive must be rendered again, line … Read more