When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLuckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPrayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.
Ralph Waldo Emerson