## Metadata - Author: [[Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bliss Perry]] - Full Title: The Heart of Emerson's Journals - Category: #books ## Highlights - I have determined to grant a new charter to my pen, having finished my commonplace book, which I commenced in January, and with as much success as I was ambitious of — whose whole aim was the small utility of being the exchequer to the accumulating store of organized verbs, nouns and substantives, to wit, sentences. ([Location 180](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00KD14UW0&location=180))