Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)


Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of...

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of...

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of...

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of...