Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1822

Few of my pages have been filled so little to my own satisfaction as these — and why ? — be- cause the air has been so fine, and my visits so pleasant, and myself…

Animi ardor, de quo supra dixi, non extinctus est, sedmihiyidetur non esse tarn pot ens, tarn clarus, tarn magnus quam antea. I'imeo ne caderet. Spero ut viveret.

. . . Life is the spark which kindles up a soul and opens its capacities to receive the great les- sons which it is appointed to learn of the Uni- verse — of Good —…

In connexion with the remarks on the Drama -^ \Wide World, No. 3] it should be further said, ^ that this art is the most attractive, naturally, of v/ all. The…

. . . The grand object of the Drama is to claim the aiFections by awakening . . . sympathy. ; It represents an accumulation of human wo with gorgeous pomp to move…

To glory which is departed, to majesty which hath ceased, to intellect which is quenched — I bring no homage, — no, not a grain of gold. For why seek to contradict…

At least we may look farther than to the simple fact and perhaps aid our faith by freer speculation. I believe that nobody now regards the maxim " that all men are…

The hours of social intercourse, of gratified hope, of the festive board, have just now yielded to quieter pleasures of the closet and the pen. This tender flesh is…

The ardour of my college friendship for is nearly extinct, and it is with difficulty that I can now recall those sensations of vivid pleasure which his presence was…

If (as saith Voltaire) all- that is related of Alfred the Great be true, I know not the man that ever lived, more worthy of the gratitude of posterity. I hope the…

I have heard this evening and shall elsewhere record Prof. Everett's lecture upon Eleusinian mysteries, Dodona,and St. Sophia's temple. . . . Though the lecture…