...avenue, with that pure, intellectual gleam diffused about his presence, like the garment of a shiningone; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension,...if expecting to receive more than he could impart. And, in truth, the heart of many an ordinary man had, perchance, inscriptions which he could not read....

...intellectual gleam diffusing about his presence like the garment of a shining one, and he, so great, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each...man alive as if expecting to receive more than he would impart. . . . It was impossible to dwell in his vicinity without inhaling more or less the mountain...

...Emerson as a poet of deep beauty and austere tenderness, but sought nothing from his as a philosopher. It was good, nevertheless, to meet him in the wood-paths,...if expecting to receive more than he could impart. And, in truth, the heart of many an ordinary man had, perchance, inscriptions which he could not read....