Van Wyck Brooks’ New England: Indian Summer (1940) contains remarks made by the Mayor of Haverhill, Massachusetts at the funeral of John Greenleaf Whittier in which is the following: “Here may we be reminded that man is most honored, not by that which a city may do for him, but by that which he has done for the city.”
"In a poor country, a man proves to his wife that he loves her by giving her a rose, but in a rich country, he must give a dozen roses."
— Economist Richard Layard
