Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1865

In reading Mark Antonine last night, it was pleasant to be reminded, by some of his pre- cepts, of a living example in a dear person near me.

In the acceptance that my papers find among my thoughtful countrymen, in these days, I can- not help seeing how limited is their reading. If they read only the…

Notes for WilUamstown.^ Returns the eternal topic, the praise of intellect. I gain my point, gain all points, whenever I can reach the young man with any statement…

Yesterday, at our Cattle-Show, I saw a man sitting in the Town Hall so like to the late President Lincoln, in the whole head, that I called the attention of Rev.…

We hoped that in the peace, after such a war, a great expansion would follow in the mind of the Country ; grand views in every direction, — true freedom in…