Spruce Kings

Famous quotes containing the words spruce and/or kings:

    You did not expect to find such spruce trees in the wild woods, but they evidently attend to their toilets each morning even there. Through such a front yard did we enter that wilderness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)