I think this button is a paraphrase of Ralph Waldo Emerson: People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Emerson died on this date in 1882, a month before his seventieth birthday. He’s buried in a section of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, called “Authors’ Ridge.” Members of the Alcott, Hawthorne, and Thoreau families are buried nearby. (Washington Irving is buried in a different Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York.)
I never get tired of reading about the great writers and thinkers of that period and how they impacted and influenced one another’s lives and work. Concord is a place I’d like to visit and draw inspiration from.