I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.


My little book of Emerson (ed. 1924)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt...

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt...

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt...

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt...