He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.


Emerson's complete works (ed. 1903)


He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy...

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy...

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy...

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy...