Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:
Yet Washington, Adams, Quincy, Franklin, I would willingly adorn my hall with, & I will have daguerres of Alcott, [A. Bronson Alcott] Channing, [William Ellery Channing] Thoreau.
(The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 13:438)
