Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:
Henry T. remains erect, calm, self-subsistent, before me, and I read him not only truly in his Journal, but he is not long out of my mind when I walk, and, as to-day, row upon the pond. He chose wisely no doubt for himself to be the bachelor of thought and nature that he was,—how near to the old monks in their ascetic religion! He had no talent for wealth, & knew how to be poor without the least hint of squalor or inelegance. Perhaps he fell, all of us do, into his way of living, without forecasting it much, but approved & confirmed it with later wisdom.
(The Journals and Miscellaneous of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 15:261-262)
