Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1849

Two gravestones have been planted in my path within the year, Ellen Hooper's and David Scott's.' Ellen Hooper' connected herself with all the noblest and most loved…

Correcting manuscripts and proofs for print- ing makes apparent the value of perspective as essential to good writing. Once we said genius was health; but now we…

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Dante's imagination is the nearest to hands and feet that we have seen.* . . .