Sublime

For Emily, who returned her borrowed stardust to the universe far too soon.

The master of the academy, William Weatherald, had a major impact on the boy, implanting in him a love of literature and the essentials of mathematics and other practical sciences and fostering more than a little of the gentle religiosity of Quakerism.

A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the r

Everything about her was bold, vigorous, extravagant. She advised the Emerson boys: “Always do what you are afraid to do.” Her

elle est écrivaine, naturaliste, intelligente et sensible, et quand ce jeune homme sorti de sa ferme est arrivé à l’université, elle a tout de suite compris ses extraordinaires dons intellectuels. Elle l’a soutenu, encouragé, lui a fait profiter de ses relations, et John lui a toute sa vie écrit de longues lettres qu’il adresse à Madame Ezra Carr e

Stevenson, who is known for going into jails and prisons and spending hours upon hours sitting with defendants, hearing their stories, affirming their humanity, and offering them dignity.