Quote by Herman Melville

"For the country is not only the most poetical and philosophical, but is the most aristrocratic part of the earth, for it is the most venerable, and numerous bards have ennobled it by many fine titles. Whereas the town is the more plebian portion: which besides many other things, is plainly evinced by the dirty unwashed face perpetually worn by the town; but the country, like any Queen, is ever attended by scrupulous lady's maids in the guise of the seasons, and the town hath but one dress of brick turned up with stone; but the country hath a brave dress for every week of the year; sometimes she changes her dress twenty-four time in twenty-four hours; and the country weareth her sun by day as a diamond on a Queen's brow; and the stars by night as neclaces of gold beads; whereas the town's sun is smoky paste, and no diamond, and the town's stars are pinchbeck and not gold." from Pierre or the Ambiguities