"England, an old and exhausted island, must..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In imitation is a bit suicide.”

“In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.”

“He is great who confers the most benefits.”

“I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".”

“It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.”

“There is no nation in the whole world desiring war.”

“Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!”

“How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.”

“Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.”