Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876 quotes
"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."
Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
"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."