It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood.... (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood....

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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