John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
6238 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 6238 |
| AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| QUOTATION: | The hand that rounded Peter’s dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Problem. |