To My Wife whose sympathy and encouragement are a never-failing source of inspiration, this volume is lovingly inscribed "He (Emerson) believed in quotation, and borrowed from everybody and every book. Not in any stealthy or shamefaced way, but proudly, royally, as a king borrows from one of his attendants the coin that bears his own image and superscription." -O. W. HOLMES. "The greatest is he who has been oftenest aided." -RUSKIN. |