Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.

Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat; descent and fall
To give read more

That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat; descent and fall
To give us is adverse.

He who moves not forward, goes backward

He who moves not forward, goes backward

What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral read more

What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
It pushed toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation read more

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress.

He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!

He who moves not forward goes backward!
A capital saying!