Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1825

Poetry, wise women have said, hath a noble inutility, and is loved, as the flowers of the field, because not the necessaries, but the luxuries of life ; yet I…

And if Henry Clay is dead, another great spirit has gone, like Byron's, over the unvoy- ageable gulf, another contemner of moral dis- tinctions, to the award of the…

He is not dead. The story of the duel was false. Alas 1 for mine ejaculations.