Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

—Willa Cather, American author

“Ocian in view! O! the joy.”

—William Clark, explorer, in his journal upon completing the first crossing of the North American continent

“America has always been a country of
amateurs where the professional, that is to
say, the man who claims authority as a
member of an elite which knows the law in
some field or other, is an object of distrust and
resentment.”

—W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet, 1956

“History and experience tells us that moral
progress cannot come in comfortable and
complacent times, but out of trial and out of
confusion.”

—President Gerald R. Ford, State of the Union Address, January 19, 1976

"I would rather die on the highways of
Alabama than make a butchery of my
conscience."

—Martin Luther King, Jr., before marching on Selma, Alabama, March 9, 1965

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

—J.R.R. Tolkien

“Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.”

—Herman Melville, American writer, author of Moby-Dick

"Let us cross over the river and rest under the
shade of the trees."

—Thomas (, dying words, May 10, 1863

“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”

—Carol Bishop Hipps, author