He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHow beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
Ralph Waldo Emerson