Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1851

Art. 'T is indifferent whether you say, all is matter, or, all is spirit; and 'tis plain there is a tendency in the times to an identity-philosophy. You do not…

In reading Carlyle's Life of Sterling, I still feel, as of old, that the best service Carlyle has rendered is to Rhetoric or the art of writing. Now here is a book…

It would be hard to recall the rambles of last night's talk with Henry Thoreau. But we stated over again, to sadness almost, the eter- hal lonelinessvl round…