"Every ship that comes to America got..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”

“The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.”

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

“There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.”

“There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.”

“I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.”

“Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”

“A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.”

“It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”