Quote #272
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
- Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
- The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.
- Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.