Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHuman character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson