...blunders, or overt mistakes, I'm often reminded of Emerson's great words in his essay "Compensation." Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit...of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. He also wrote, "You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong." Really? In real life? With man-eating...

...hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow...of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder,...

...premise, when Wilson quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson to the citizenry of Harper congregating at Rankin's house, "Commit a crime and it seems as if a coat of snow...of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder."...

...with more. Benefit is the end of nature. But for every benefit which you receive, a tax is levied. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow...of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder,...

...quotation is not an aphorism about a king and a poet and a fatal secret, but a quotation from Emerson: Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit...of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder,...

...that things are arranged for truth and benefit, but there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit...of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder,...

...benefit, but there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit...of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder,...

...of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. . . . Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit...of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole." Was Emerson, too, an Elizabethan? On the contrary, like Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, he was not a "fool...