In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
Source: The Conduct of Life, Considerations by the Way, 1860.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.