Date: 1831
Prayer, "the incense of the heart may rise / To heaven, and find acceptance there."
preview | full record— Pierpont, John (1785-1866)
Date: August 31, 1837
"But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)