Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.


Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters (ed. 1870)


What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the...

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the...

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the...

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the...