Hitch your wagon to a star

It was an American who bade you hitch your wagon to a star, and you have only to reflect in order to recall the spiritual vigor, the righteous force of will, the strength of aspiring mind, the patriotic courage, the tireless soul-struggle of the early generations of choicely educated, simply nurtured Americans.

To succeed you must, as Emerson expresses it, “hitch your wagon to a star.”

Which tells you that if you can hitch your wagon to a star, big-bet funds are worth it.

In the A.L.A. we have heard the word “Utopian,” or its equivalent, on more than one occasion met by the motto, “Hitch your wagon to a star”; and we have seen the impracticable an accomplished fact.

Hitch your wagon to a star—yes.