Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.


Select Essays and Poems (ed. 1808)


He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you....

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you....

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you....

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you....