The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.


Essays: Second Series (ed. 1844)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church,...

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church,...

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church,...

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church,...