Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diary, 1870

In "Clubs" I ought to have said that men being each a treasure-house of valuable experi- ences,— and yet the man often shy and daunted by company into dumbness, —…

I find Philip Randolph almost if not quite on a level with my one or two Olympic friends in his insight, — as shown in his manuscript, which I have been reading. He…

I cannot but please myself with the recoil when Plutarch tells me that "the Athenians had such an abhorrence of those who accused Socrates that they would neither…

This morning I think no subject so fit for poetry as Home, the Massachusetts or the American Home.

Judge W of Rhode Island was not a great man, and resented some slight he received from Tristram Burgess at the Bar, by asking him if he knew before whom he was…