Excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson: Mr. Choate's Address at the Passmore Edwards Institute, June 15th, 1903

He certainly had a vivid and fertile imagination, a wonderful power of idealizing the facts of nature and the events of life, and a quick sympathy with all that concerned and interested humanity, which enabled him to produce some poems which still live after half a century, and which are likely to find many readers in coming generations.

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