Talks With Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" There are no books," he concluded, " foi boys, like the poems of Sir Walter Scott.
Every boy loves them if they are not put into his hands too late. 'Marmion,' 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' 'The Lady of the Lake;' they surpass everything for boy- reading we have." As an amusing instance of literary repeti- tion, he referred in this connection to the musical lines in some elder verses of a countryman of Scott's : — " Make me thy wrack When I come back.
But spare me when I go," by comparison
...with lines in Martial's twenty- fifth epigram : — " Parcete dum propero^ Mergite dum redeo." ^t was uncommon to hear Mr. Emerson speak with such emphasis of any one as he did of Plato. At our first railroad restaurant, where, although there was plenty of time, everybody was eating as they do generally at travel-tables, Mr. Emerson leaned over toward me, and said humorously, with a smile — 48 Talks with " Wasn't it Plato who said of the citizens of Agrigentum — they, you know, were colossal architects and eaters — 'These people build as if they were immortal, and eat as if they were to die instantly ' ?

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