Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.


Essays and Poems of Emerson (ed. 1921)


Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not...

Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not...

Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not...

Only those books come down which deserve to last. All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not...