"Motion or change, and identity or rest,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”

“Power educates the potentate.”

“Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.”

“This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.”

“See where she comes apparelled like the spring.”

“The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.”

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.”

“Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.”

“My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.”