Famous quotes containing the words spruce and/or kings:
“The canoe and yellow birch, beech, maple, and elm are Saxon and Norman, but the spruce and fir, and pines generally, are Indian.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)