What a marvelous sentiment!

‘The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.’

I took this picture while visiting the Jefferson building of the Library of Congress with my better half’s father.

Is it true?

In a thousand years, will people remember George W. Bush? Steve Jobs?

Or will they remember Mark Twain?

The glory of Greece and Rome is as much in Homer, Cicero, Plato, and the idea of a Republic and Democracy as it in roads, aqueducts, and temples, however glorious.