Date: 1800
"The pen is a pacifyer. It checks the mind's career; it circumscribes her wanderings."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: September 10, 1836
"Whilst we wait in this Olympus of gods, we think of nature as an appendix to the soul."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)