The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhy should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?
Ralph Waldo Emerson