Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1869

Alcott came, and talked Plato and Socrates, extolling them with gravity. I bore it long, and then said, that was a song for others, not for him. He should find what…

Yesterday, Saturday, June 12, the committee on scale of merit and discipline met at Dr. Walker's in Cambridge. Present, Dr. Walker, Professor Runkle, Theodore…

This morning sent my six prose volumes, re- vised and corrected, to Fields and Company for their new edition in two volumes.

Humboldt one of those wonders of the world like Aristotle, like Crichton, like Newton, ap- pearing now and then as if to show us the pos- sibilities of the genus…

The scholar wants not only time but warm time, good anthracite or cannel coal to make every minute in the hour avail.