"What care though rival cities soarAlong the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.”

“Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.”

“Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.”

“London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.”

“The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.”

“Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.”

“Too much to know is to know naught but fame.”