"Often it happens that some one spot, un-coveted by others, visited by no pilgrim feet, may be more to you than all the world besides: it may be but a bit of meadow-land with a path beneath the elms; or an old house that looks upon a street; or a bench in a plain village church. But if it be there that your childish steps ran free; if through those windows you looked ere the tint of wonder had yet flown; if at that shrine you knelt in your first deep sorrow; if shadowy forms surround you there with benign and holy looks, and tones are in the air that you alone can hear; the place will have for you a sacredness quite unique and immeasurable; a magnitude of interest that no lines of longitude can define." Martineau.