A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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