Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.


The Conduct of Life (ed. Harvard University Press, 2003) - ISBN: 9780674011908

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other...

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other...

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other...

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other...