In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.


Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed (ed. 1912)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step,...

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step,...

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step,...

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step,...