Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.


Emerson: A Modern Anthology (ed. 1959)


We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.