Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.


Prose Works (ed. 1872)


Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour ...

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour ...

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour ...

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour ...