If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
Source: Practical Agitation, ch. 5, 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.