When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNext to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.
Ralph Waldo Emerson