H. T. has been reading Aristotle and found that it is good, a fact which Mr. E[merson] says, has been the property of every schoolboy for two thousand years.—Henry you know thought he had discovered Aristotle, the good creature (I mean H.).
       — Ellery Channing, Letter to Mrs. Marston Watson, June 15, 1860, in Kenneth Walter Cameron, "Thoreau and Emerson in Channing’s Letters to the Watsons," Emerson Society Quarterly, XIV (1959), 78.