All wealth is intelligence applied to raw material. The piece
of paper cost half a farthing, but Tennyson’s poem written
thereupon made it worth a thousand dollars. Just as a little
canvas, worth two or three francs, took on a value of $200,000
when Millet mixed the colors with his genius and spread them
over the waiting cloth. Civilization is a height on which
man climbs hand over hand up the golden rounds of wisdom and
knowledge.--N. D. HILLIS.
(1741)