In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.


Emerson's Complete Works (ed. 1883)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.