The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.
Source: Practical Agitation, ch. 6, 1898.
-- John Jay Chapman, (Mar 2 1862-1933), US poet, dramatist, critic; He attacked the get-rich-quick morality of the post-Civil War Gilded Age in political action and in his writings.