Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)


Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming ...

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming ...

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming ...

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming ...