F. Hopkinson Smith

I believe that there is something fine, some spark of good, in the lowest human being, and I want to bring out that sort of thing.

Francis Hopkinson Smith, discussing his goal in fiction writing in a New York Times interview, January 29, 1905. Smith, in addition to writing novels such as Col. Carter of Cartersville (1891) and Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero (1908), designed the base of the Statue of Liberty, among other public projects.