Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOf immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson